This is from the minutes of a meeting in 2008...
DW_OP_implicit_value is still needed in some circumstances so it will
be kept as-is. DW_OP_implicit_value could possibly be used to express
something like a floating point number whereas it would be more
complex to do the same
DW_OP_implicit_value, as you said, allows encoding a constant that can be
larger than the stack value size, so it will always be needed for these kinds
of constant values.
> On Jan 4, 2021, at 11:30 AM, Paul Robinson via Dwarf-Discuss
> wrote:
>
> Happy New Year, everybody!
>
> A colleague
Happy New Year, everybody!
A colleague just had a question for me about DW_OP_implicit_value
which led me to wonder why we have both that and DW_OP_stack_value.
Looking at http://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=071227.1 which
introduced the latter, it says in part:
(This operator is similar
