Re: [PATCH] Mark Pascal as case-insensitive

Tom Tromey
2025-11-17T15:28:55Z

>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2025, Paul Koning wrote:

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

Maciej> Hmm, linking object modules coming from languages of the opposite symbol
Maciej> case sensitivity? We don't seem to have support for that in the tools or
Maciej> the object formats though and a DWARF tag is surely not enough for that.

I think currently the DWARF standard specifies DW_AT_identifier_case as
applying to the CU, not individual symbols.

However it seems to me that with LTO it would be better to relax this
and allow things like DW_AT_language on functions. That way gdb could
react correctly when stepping through code where cross-language inlining
has been done.

Tom