Re: Is bitstring support still useful?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-18T04:09:25Z

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 05:00:54PM +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> The Free Pascal Compiler uses it for bitpacked arrays (arrays whose
> element sizes are not multiples of 8 bits), because there does not
> appear to be any other way to represent them in stabs. I've also
> tried @P, but that seemed to be ignored by gdb (and there is no
> reason why it would mean bitpacked rather than e.g. bytepacked).
>
> Bitpacked arrays are not used very much though, so if you can suggest
> another way to generate Stabs debug information for them, that's fine
> too (i.e., backwards compatibility is not that important in our
> case).

Does this compiler support DWARF, and if so, how do you represent them
there?