[fpc-devel] Help/Guidance please: Dwarf support for properties

Jonas Maebe jonas at freepascal.org
Sat Apr 27 20:29:04 CEST 2024


On 27/04/2024 17:18, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote:
> 
> One of the posts also brings up the idea of avoiding labels (in asm), 
> and keep track of locations by counting the bytes in the generated dwarf 
> as part of the compilers work (IMHO duplicate what the asm already can do?)

That's not the assembler's, but the linker's job. And on macOS, the 
DWARF info is not processed by the linker and hence can only contain 
relative offsets (differences between two local labels).


Jonas


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