[Bug c++/37590] g++ should emit different debug info for variable's type

["tromey at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #7 from tromey at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-09-23 20:48 -------
Jan> Tom, could you elaborate why x1 and x2 should be printed differently?
Jan> I do not say they should not but I do not see a clear reason for either
way.

My view is that "whatis" should print the declared type, as much as possible.
Note that this is a contrived example.  Here, it hardly matters.  However,
there are many cases where "whatis" shows something incomprehensible
to the user.

Jan> Should we also try to record the source name of this variable?
Jan> #define OBJECT_VAR(object, var) object ## _ ## var
Jan> int OBJECT_VAR (window, width);

Yeah, we can't do a perfect job all the time.  We have to print something,
of course, and I suggest using the tokens naming the type (or variable)
after preprocessing -- mostly because that is easy and gets the right
answer when the user does not do cpp tricks.


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