From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/dwarf2] Fix PR/2018 - set array type names
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061006204946.GA17825@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061006203904.GA1059@adacore.com>
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I don't think I looked at this the first time you sent it. The hack is
> > disgusting, but that's a problem for another day. I think the comment
> > in GCC is simply incorrect for DWARF-2, and the array should have the
> > correct range type.
>
> I am not sure which hack you refer to; if you're talking about
> the encoding we're using, I also agree that it's not very elegant.
> It's a artifact that comes from old times when dwarf2 wasn't available
> (and still isn't always available on certain targets). However, we
> *are* at AdaCore working on producing more standard dwarf, so eventually
> the array index should have the correct type. We've made some progress
> in that direction already, but it will take a LOT of work to complete.
Good. Glad to know I understood what it was doing correctly :-)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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2006-10-06 19:23 Joel Brobecker
2006-10-06 19:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-06 20:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-10-06 20:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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