Ping? I understand there was a freeze period for a while, but the patch has been out for a little over 3 months, now, and is fairly trivial. Can someone review it for me?
Suggest also including it in 4.9. Thank you! > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:50:46PM -0500, Jason Merrill wrote: > > On 02/19/2013 10:42 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > >This is useful when a DIE does not have a descriptive type attribute. > > >In that case, the debugger needs to determine whether the unit > > >was compiled with a compiler that normally provides that information, > > >or not. > > > > Ah. OK, then. But I'd prefer to call it > > DW_AT_GNAT_use_descriptive_type, to follow the convention of keeping > > the vendor tag at the beginning of the name. > > Almost a year ago, you privately approved a small patch of mine, > with the small request above. I'm sorry I let it drag so long! > Here is the updated patch. > > include/ChangeLog: > > * dwarf2.def: Rename DW_AT_use_GNAT_descriptive_type into > DW_AT_GNAT_use_descriptive_type. > > gcc/ChangeLog: > > * dwarf2out.c (gen_compile_unit_die): Add > DW_AT_use_GNAT_descriptive_type attribute for Ada units. > > Tested on x86_64-linux. > > I should also adjust the Wiki page accordingly, but the login process > keeps timing out. I know I have the right login and passwd since > I succesfully reset them using the passwd recovery procedure, just > in case the error was due to bad credentials. I'll try again later. > > If approved, I will also take care of coordinating the dwarf2.def > change with binutils-gdb.git. > > Is this patch still OK to commit? > > Thank you, > -- > Joel > >From 7aae3721addf6905113d9f0287a5cbb5301a462b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Joel Brobecker <brobec...@adacore.com> > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:25:12 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] [dwarf] Add DW_AT_GNAT_use_descriptive_type flag for Ada > units. > > This patch first renames the DW_AT_use_GNAT_descriptive_type DWARF > attribute into DW_AT_GNAT_use_descriptive_type to better follow > the usual convention of keeping the vendor tag at the beginning > of the name. > > It then modifies dwadrf2out to generate this attribute for Ada units. > > include/ChangeLog: > > * dwarf2.def: Rename DW_AT_use_GNAT_descriptive_type into > DW_AT_GNAT_use_descriptive_type. > > gcc/ChangeLog: > > * dwarf2out.c (gen_compile_unit_die): Add > DW_AT_use_GNAT_descriptive_type attribute for Ada units. > --- > gcc/dwarf2out.c | 4 ++++ > include/dwarf2.def | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/gcc/dwarf2out.c b/gcc/dwarf2out.c > index d1ca4ba..057605c 100644 > --- a/gcc/dwarf2out.c > +++ b/gcc/dwarf2out.c > @@ -19318,6 +19318,10 @@ gen_compile_unit_die (const char *filename) > /* The default DW_ID_case_sensitive doesn't need to be specified. */ > break; > } > + > + if (language == DW_LANG_Ada95) > + add_AT_flag (die, DW_AT_GNAT_use_descriptive_type, 1); > + > return die; > } > > diff --git a/include/dwarf2.def b/include/dwarf2.def > index 71a37b3..4dd636e 100644 > --- a/include/dwarf2.def > +++ b/include/dwarf2.def > @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ DW_AT (DW_AT_VMS_rtnbeg_pd_address, 0x2201) > /* GNAT extensions. */ > /* GNAT descriptive type. > See http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DW_AT_GNAT_descriptive_type . */ > -DW_AT (DW_AT_use_GNAT_descriptive_type, 0x2301) > +DW_AT (DW_AT_GNAT_use_descriptive_type, 0x2301) > DW_AT (DW_AT_GNAT_descriptive_type, 0x2302) > /* UPC extension. */ > DW_AT (DW_AT_upc_threads_scaled, 0x3210) > -- > 1.7.0.4 > -- Joel