Re: RFA: parse Sun's STABS syntax for prototyped function types

Jim Blandy
2002-02-13T22:24:58Z

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:01:57AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> >
> > GCC doesn't emit this --- yet. :)
> >
> > Note the 'to do' items; that's why this is an RFA and not a patch.
> >
> > 2002-02-08 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> >
> > * stabsread.c (read_type): Add code to parse Sun's syntax for
> > prototyped function types.
>
> How do you get a Sun compiler to emit these? I tried two function
> pointers:
> .stabs "bar:G(0,27)=*(0,28)=f(0,3)",32,0,4,0 !(/tmp/acompAAA6Qaajn:84)
> .stabs "foo:G(0,29)=*(0,30)=f(0,3)",32,0,4,0 !(/tmp/acompAAA6Qaajn:87)
>
> Those're both unprototyped but the last one shouldn't be. There are no
> 'g' types at all.

I don't know. I've never actually seen anyone's compiler emit them,
ever. I'm just reading documentation.