[RFA 2/4] dwarf2_physname

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:52:27PM -0800, Keith Seitz wrote:
> For this code, gcc will output a type-like information DIE tree,
> telling us ONLY about the composition of the anonymous namespace with
> namespace G and variable Xg. Later gcc gives us a DIE with
> DW_AT_location (to continue my (poor) type analogy: an instance of
> the variable). To describe this DIE, we also get DW_AT_specification
> and nothing more. Just DW_AT_location and DW_AT_specification.
> 
> If we do not follow DW_AT_specification, dwarf2_physname will put the
> variable Xg in the global namespace instead of "(anonymous
> namespace)::G::Xg", which is where it really is defined.

Right.  The issue is not the presence or absence of the
DW_AT_specification; the issue is whether to follow this DIE's
parents, or its specification's parents.  The reader handles this in a
couple of other places already.  For instance, see the comment in
determine_prefix.

I think this code has evolved a couple of times since the referenced
block was added.  Certainly all callers of the old pdi_needs_namespace
are removed; the callers of die_needs_namespace are new.  It may
no longer be right.

What're we trying to answer?  For instance, is it the distinction
between local variables and global variables?  This is interesting
because I believe that function-local classes get the enclosing
function as a prefix, but obviously function-local automatic variables
should not.

Judging from some examples, you can not distinguish function local and
function static variables without decoding DW_AT_location.  But that's
not the most important case; we don't need to qualify function local
variables in the symbol table and things will work out OK.

I'm not sure how DW_TAG_member comes into this either, that doesn't
entirely make sense for non-static class members.  Be careful about
this one: GCC sometimes incorrectly uses DW_TAG_variable, when the
DWARF standard says they should be DW_TAG_member.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery