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Re: [PATCH] Classify non-POD struct types more or less correctly on AMD64


On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:38:31PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> >I don't know if this sort of information should be in the dwarf2
> >information somehow.  It definitely is in the C++ GNU v3 ABI:
> >  http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html#calls
> 
> I think it should definitely be encoded in DWARF2.  (I don't know where; 
> I just think it's a mistake for the debugger to be trying to figure this 
> out for itself.  The rules are pretty subtle, and may be different from 
> architecture to architecture, or compiler release to compiler release, 
> even, if we make an intentional change.)
> 
> For stabs, you're probably hosed -- but then again, aren't you just 
> generally hosed with stabs? :-)

Amen.

> >I'm guessing that this is what the x86-64 ABI was referring to, rather
> >than the actual term POD.
> 
> Yes.

OK, thanks.  I don't believe there is an appropriate existing tag for
this, so if we get sufficiently fed up with trying to guess, we'll have
to propose one :)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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