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Re: [4.7 PATCH] Decrease size of DW_AT_bit_offset on little-endian targets (PR debug/47946)
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:27:04 -0700
- Subject: Re: [4.7 PATCH] Decrease size of DW_AT_bit_offset on little-endian targets (PR debug/47946)
- References: <20110302174418.GS30899@tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com>
>>>>> "Jakub" == Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
Jakub> DWARF4 obsoletes DW_AT_bit_offset with DW_AT_data_bit_offset, but
Jakub> this patch doesn't try to change it for -gdwarf-4, that would be
Jakub> more work (and most probably gdb doesn't handle it yet either).
Unfortunately you are right -- GDB doesn't handle DW_AT_data_bit_offset.
If you want to do that, let me know and I will write a GDB patch for it.
Tom