Re: FORTRAN_HACK macro?

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
 > 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.

yes I think it was there since the first incarnation of the file. It
hasn't been touched except for that one in 96. 

 > 
 > If it was added after 1996-07-19 then someone was trying to do
 > something.
 > 

I don't think it was.

elena

 > Michael C