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Re: [RFC]: Document patch for F90 derived type support
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:37:46AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:34:40 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
> > cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> >
> > > > + type = Type bar
> > > > + int4 :: c
> > > > + real*4 :: d
> > > > + End Type bar
> > >
> > > Btw, isn't it more consistent to print "integer*4" instead of "int4"?
> > > Either that, or just "integer", I think. Or is "int4" a valid type
> > > name in f90? (The last Fortran I used was f77, so please forgive my
> > > ignorance.)
> >
> > Yes. I also think so. But the name of "int4" is got from the DWARF tag:
> >
> > <1><e6>: Abbrev Number: 4 (DW_TAG_base_type)
> > DW_AT_name : int4
> > DW_AT_byte_size : 4
> > DW_AT_encoding : 5 (signed)
>
> Well, we don't need t print everything DWARF-2 throws at us verbatim.
> If you agree with my suggestions, I say let's use them. Are there any
> problems with that?
Normally we try to honor the type names in debug info. If int4 is a
bogus name for a type in Fortran, then this debug info is bogus -
gfortran should be fixed.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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