On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:23:58PM -0700, Ron McCall wrote: > I found in the readelf dump of the .debug_info section > that the corresponding DW_TAG_typedef entry had no > DW_AT_type attribute (which usually links to a > DW_TAG_base_type entry). It seems that gcc does not > emit a DW_TAG_base_type entry for void. Is that > intentional?
Yes, this is the convention we use. > In this program there are only DW_TAG_pointer_type > entries linking to this DW_TAG_typedef entry. Without > the typedef, I would have expected (perhaps naively) > that the DW_TAG_pointer_type would link to a > DW_TAG_base_type for void (in the case of a void * > pointer type). Is that not the case? Void isn't a base type. The DWARF 3 standard way to represent this is DW_TAG_unspecified_type. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
