From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
Subject: Re: Is bitstring support still useful?
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090718040915.GA15792@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD69DB5-124E-4BEF-9866-D278F59B9BC9@elis.ugent.be>
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?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 14:33 Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-17 14:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-17 15:01 ` Jonas Maebe
2009-07-18 4:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-07-18 15:17 ` Jonas Maebe
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