On 12/02/2015 11:44 AM, Eric Botcazou wrote:
It doesn't look to me like DW_AT_endianity is applicable to array types
or members in DWARF 3/4; instead, it should be applied to the underlying
base type.
Yeah, I agreed but Jakub didn't and I trust him more than myself here. :-)
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-06/msg00143.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-06/msg00144.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-06/msg00147.html
For the C family of languages where array types are not first-class citizens,
the SSO attribute simply cannot be supported on array types. But for other
languages, like Ada, where they are, it can and it is supported on the branch,
so you can declare an array of 4 integers with big-endian storage order.
OK, but why not represent this as an array of big-endian integers?
Jason
