Re: [patch] [gdb/testsuite] include a use of the definition of a type to cause clang to emit debug info

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 04/14/2014 11:47 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> My position, in this situation, is that your change is actually
> not completely neutral: Even if this was not the initial intention
> when the test was written, as it is now, it allows us to verify
> that the compiler produces the full debugging information for
> an enum type even in the case where the type is only referenced
> through a pointer. By adding a global variable, we lose that part,
> potentially allowing GCC to regress (from a GDB user's perspective).
> 
> If the type was opaque, I would have had no objection. But in this
> case, I try to put myself in the shoes of a user debugging that code,
> and it would seem reasonable to be able to dereference "e".

I think it'd be good if we had a test that exercises that expectation
explicitly.

-- 
Pedro Alves