From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14514 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2004 23:25:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14507 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2004 23:25:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mclean.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 2004 23:25:02 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AejWQ-000297-00; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:25:02 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id E9A384B35A; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:25:05 -0500 (EST) To: ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: FORTRAN_HACK macro? Message-Id: <20040108232505.E9A384B35A@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:25:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00108.txt.bz2 Beats me. Here's some fact-crumbs: dwarf2read.c was not in gdb 4.16. dwarf2read.c was in gdb 4.17, dated 1998-01-28 1998-01-28 version already has FORTRAN_HACK code around FORTRAN_HACK is about the same as it is today ChangeLog-96 says dwarf2read.c introduced on 1996-07-19. grepping on 'read_array_type' in the ChangeLogs turns up: 1996-12-01: (dwarf_read_array_type): Handle variable length arrays. Use lookup_pointer_type instead of handcrafting a type. Create array type only if a DW_TAG_subrange_type was found. 1997-01-25: (read_array_type): Renamed from dwarf_read_array_type. Default upper array bound to describe an array with unspecified length. Create array types in backwards order, as dwarf2 puts out the array dimensions from left to right. 1998-01-28: (read_array_type): Fix langauge test. If the FORTRAN_HACK was in the 1996-07-19 version then I would guess that it is an unimplemented stub and can be killed/replaced easily. If it was added after 1996-07-19 then someone was trying to do something. Michael C