Re: [PATCH] Interpret DW_TAG_unspecified_type as void

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:29:38 +0100
> From: Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is part of a series of patches from a CodeSourcery branch which 
> enable the output of ARM's RVCT 2.2 compiler to be debugged with gdb.
> 
> This patch handles the C/C++ interpretation of the DWARF 3 construct 
> DW_TAG_unspecified_type as void. This is used in representing e.g. 
> pointer-to-void types. Other languages will currently be handled in 
> exactly the same way; though I'm not entirely sure if that's a sensible 
> default, I don't know what would be better. (Re: section 5.2 of the 
> DWARF 3 doc.)
> 
> Tested natively on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and cross to arm-none-eabi 
> with no change in results. Tests against the ARM compiler are improved 
> somewhat.
> 
> OK to apply?

I haven't looked into what the DWARF spec actually says, but
traditionally unspecified types in C default to 'int', not 'void'.