Re: [PATCH] Mark Pascal as case-insensitive

[Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>]

> On Nov 14, 2025, at 2:08 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> wrote:
> 
> Tom> FWIW, I just found DW_AT_identifier_case:
> Tom> ...
> Tom>  <0><b>: Abbrev Number: 1 (DW_TAG_compile_unit)
> Tom>     <c>   DW_AT_name        :
> Tom>     ../../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.pascal/hello.pas
> Tom>     <3f>   DW_AT_producer    : Free Pascal 3.2.2 2025/09/10
> Tom>     <5c>   DW_AT_comp_dir    :
> Tom>     /data/vries/gdb/leap-16-0/build/gdb/testsuite/
> Tom>     <8b>   DW_AT_language    : 9        (ANSI Pascal)
> Tom>     <8c>   DW_AT_identifier_case: 3     (case_insensitive)
> Tom>     <8d>   DW_AT_stmt_list   : 0
> Tom>     <91>   DW_AT_low_pc      : 0x401090
> Tom>     <99>   DW_AT_high_pc     : 0x401150
> Tom> ...
> Tom> which enables a finer granularity.  We currently don't support this,
> Tom> but I'm not sure if that's a relevant feature.
> 
> I also didn't know about this.
> 
> We could probably handle this in gdb, maybe by enhancing the
> canonicalization step, though other approaches are possible.
> 
> Tom

Is the purpose of that mechanism to allow individual symbols to be case sensitive, or not?  Neat, but where would that be used?

	paul