dwarflint versus linkage_name attributes
Tom Tromey
tromey at redhat.com
Mon Apr 4 16:50:14 UTC 2011
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> writes:
Mark> - DW_TAG_union_type and DW_TAG_structure_type with DW_AT_linkage_name
Mark> set (but not DW_AT_external, which on itself makes sense). These are
Mark> unexpected because the dwarf spec doesn't explain why or how these would
Mark> be necessary.
See GCC PR 47510.
Basically, this is a GCC extension. Partly it is there to make the
implementation in GDB simpler, but it is also a DWARF reflection of a
C++ feature that otherwise has no natural existing representation (at
least IMO).
Tom
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