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Re: DWARF-2, static data members
In article <vt2ofc6ze70.fsf@zenia.red-bean.com>, Jim Blandy
<jimb@zenia.red-bean.com> writes:
> I agree with your reading. There should be *two* entries for a C++
> static data member: one as a variable definition, DW_TAG_variable,
> at the top level, and one as a member definition, DW_TAG_member, as
> a child of the struct/class/union die.
Right. Though you can presumably skip the DW_TAG_variable entry if
you're compiling a file in which that variable never gets defined or
referred to. (E.g. if the file you're compiling includes a header
file defining a class that it uses, but the file you're compiling
doesn't happen to use that particular static member of the class
itself.)
> For what it's worth, the paragraph of the Dwarf 2 spec that
> corresponds to paragraph 6. in Section 4.1 of Draft 3 rev 7 (what I
> treat as authoritative for Dwarf 3) doesn't specify what tag the
> type die's child is supposed to have.
Good point: I'd missed that Dwarf 3 is more explicit there. Dwarf 2
seems to me to be explicit enough, in that the section on class
declarations that says that data members should have the DW_TAG_member
(with no exception for static data members), but it's a good thing
that Dwarf 3 makes that clearer.
> Have you run `readelf -wi' on the executable, or run GCC with
> `-save-temps -dA' and looked at the .s file, to see what GCC is
> actually generating? I think GCC does generate children of
> struct/class types with the DW_TAG_variable tag.
I'll have to look up what those arguments mean :-), but I did do g++
-S yesterday and went through the .s file by hand. (Fun, and
educational, though I don't plan to do it too often.) It really is
generating DW_TAG_variable tags instead of DW_TAG_member tags.
> You might put together a fix for GCC, too --- dwarf2out.c is big,
> but it doesn't seem too bad. This would allow you to actually test
> your changes.
I'll give it a look. I did submit a PR for GCC, so at least it's in
their bug database.
David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu