Re: [RFC]: Document patch for F90 derived type support

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:32:03 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > I did some comparison between g77 and gfortran.  In the aspect of the 
> > compiler-generated DW_TAG_base_type, g77 uses "byte", "word" and "integer" 
> > for "integer*1", "integer*2" and "integer*4" respectively.  And gfortran 
> > seems to adopt a new mechanism, it uses "int1", "int2" and "int4" 
> > respectively.  So it might also make some sense.  At lease the debugger 
> > user can guess the meaning from these words.  :-) 
> 
> I think they're close enough to display for now

``For now''?  Are we in a hurry to release GDB or something?

> I spoke with Paul Brook and there shouldn't be any trouble changing
> them if we want to.

But what about the versions that are already there?  We want GDB to
behave consistently, even of gfortran does not.

> Eli, I agree that it would be reasonable to ignore them; but I don't
> think there's any particularly easy way to do it.

??? Won't something as simple as

   if (strcmp ("int4", ...) == 0)
      printf_filtered ("integer*4");

do?  What am I missing?