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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: ASIS?
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"Niklas Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote in message
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> I thought ASIS only has "high-level" information prior to the
> target-dependent object-code generation and linking. I think the
> debugger will need the link map, information about the stack frame
> layouts, record layouts, etc, which is not in the ASIS domain. Am I
> wrong?

No. The Rationale for ASIS appendix of the ASIS standard states
"It is not a goal to support tools having dynamic run-time requirements
(e.g., symbolic debugger)."
It can't be any clearer than that.

(Sorry I can't give you a reference to the standard so you can see for
yourself, as the ASIS standard is copyright ISO and thus cannot be made
publicly available.)

                         Randy.