use / handling of debug information for structures

[Roul Oldenburger]

Hello everyone,

I am not sure to put my question in here but someone knowing the 
internals of ddd might be able to answer it.

ddd is able to display instances of structure types and their components 
... it also displays the addresses/offsets, subtypes and of course their 
values.

My question is, how does ddd retrieve this information?

I am trying to use the debug information gcc can add to executables to 
reconstruct trees of structures. Using 'objdump --stabs' delivers enough 
information to do this, but I will get strings and like to know if this 
information is held in another form ... probably a ready to use linked 
list of types and subtypes??


Thanks for your help
Roul