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Re: Calculating array length

From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
To: Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc dot nl>
Cc: archer at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:59:03 +0200
Subject: Re: Calculating array length
References: <1244370173.22994.14.camel@wsjoost> <20090607144745.GA21154@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <1244390772.8081.39.camel@wsjoost> <20090607174924.GA4174@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:49:24 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Guessing there should be new DWARF DW_AT_data_byte_size to be used in such
> case together with DW_AT_byte_size.  DW_AT_data_byte_size would specify the
> variable size (8, 5, 13) and DW_AT_byte_size would specify the descriptor size
> (8 bytes in this case, assuming you used 32bit arch here).

That is excessive.  DW_AT_byte_size of the array itself should specify its
size possibly less than number_of_elements * dw_at_byte_stride.


Sorry,
Jan

References:
- Calculating array length
  - From: Joost van der Sluis
- Re: Calculating array length
  - From: Jan Kratochvil
- Re: Calculating array length
  - From: Joost van der Sluis
- Re: Calculating array length
  - From: Jan Kratochvil

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