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Re: [PATCH] DWARFv5 DW_TAG_aligned_type.
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:25:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] DWARFv5 DW_TAG_aligned_type.
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Hi Joel,
Forgot to ask...
On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 00:19 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 07:42 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > My only question is regarding the checks for alignments to be stricter
> > than the alignment of their base types. Why are they needed? I am asking
> > because, in Ada, it is allowed to be specifying an alignment which is
> > less strict than the standard alignment. We can ask for byte-aligned
> > integers, for instance.
Could you post an example Ada source code example so I can test a bit
how my gcc and gdb patches interact for an user aligned Ada type?
Thanks,
Mark