From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Cc: jimb@redbean.com
Subject: Re: gdb patch for 64-bit enum values on 64-bit hosts (ia64-linux)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 00:16:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00031.html

Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> One question about this patch:
> 
> In dwarf2read.c:read_array_type, I see two ifs that appear to handle
> DW_FORM_udata, DW_FORM_data1, DW_FORM_data2, and DW_FORM_data4, but
> not DW_FORM_data8, apparently assuming that DW_UNSND can't handle the
> latter.  With your change, this is no longer true on platforms with
> 64-bit longs.
> 
> Could you try expanding those `ifs' to recognize DW_FORM_data8 too,
> and see if there are any adverse effects?  It would seem to be a
> natural extension.

Jim (Blandy), one of the two or three changes that you've just made
in dwarf2read.c has broken shared libs on Solaris.

Please try running shlib-call.exp

				Thanks, 
				Michael