Re: RFA: GCC stabs don't contain prototype info

[Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Michael Snyder wrote:

> Jim Blandy wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > > Is there a standard stabs convention for this?  If so, it would be a
> > > good idea to make development GCC emit it.
> >
> > Yes, there's the encoding developed by Sun, described in the GNU stabs
> > manual.  It looks to me like GDB is ready to consume this info, so
> > getting GCC to emit it would be great.
> >
> > Until that's done, however, this test should XFAIL, so other engineers
> > won't waste their time re-analyzing the failure.  (I don't mean to
> > imply that you disagree; I just want to make things clear to the test
> > suite maintainers.)
>
> FYI, it is not only stabs that fails this test.  I've got a recent
> elf/dwarf target that also fails it.

Err, it shouldn't.
Unless you really mean dwarf and not dwarf2.
GCC adds DW_AT_prototyped to prototyped functions.
And gdb consumes it.

> The problem wherein GDB cannot
> reliably make this distinction is long standing, and much discussed
> in the past.  Unfortunately most of the people who have taken part
> in this discussion aren't around any more.
>