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Re: DW_TAG_typedef indirection causes DW_AT_data_location to be ignored
On 28 Dec 2008, at 22:06, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
confirming object_address_get_data() has a problem it does not resolve
typedefs while looking for DW_AT_data_location there. I will send/
commit
a fix later these days.
Thanks!
As C does not use DW_AT_data_location and Fortran does not use
DW_TAG_typedef
it would be nice to get later your patches/release for a proper
gdb.pascal/
test for this case.
That's kind of complicated:
1) all this stuff is only being added to svn trunk of the Free Pascal
Compiler right now, which will probably only be released by fall next
year at the earliest (the next release will come from the fixes
branch). The test program will probably also never compile with the
GNU Pascal Compiler, as it does not fully support the Delphi dialect
features I use in it and which require these Dwarf3 features (but I
don't know if that is required).
2) we only really use DW_TAG_typedef on Mac OS X (I patched the Linux
version of the compiler to generate the test case I made available);
on other OSes we always directly point to the type entity itself. The
reason that on Mac OS X the typedefs are used, is that its dsymutil
program (which extracts all DWARF info from a program's object files
and merges it in a single external bundle) throws away all
unreferenced DWARF entities, and (Apple's fork of?) gdb only adds
types with a typedef to the global scope. So I have to use the
typedefs somehow there, or otherwise you cannot use any non-local
types in expressions in gdb after using dsymutil.
3) Mac OS X' linker currently crashes when I set the DWARF version to
3 (even if I don't use any version 3 features). So I've locally
patched my compiler to set the version to 2 when testing version 3
features on Mac OS X (and then it links fine and gdb doesn't complain
either, fortunately).
So at this time, there is no way for a test to properly test things
anywhere (on non-Mac OS X you don't get referenced typedefs, and on
Mac OS X the linker crashes -- and in both cases, you need a recent
svn checkout of FPC installed). I also don't have any experience with
"expect", although I guess it shouldn't be that hard to cook something
up based on existing tests.
Jonas