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On 05/20/2014 02:55 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Jason Merrill wrote:On 05/13/2014 03:21 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:So the debugger doesn't have to guess the properties of the enum's underlying base type, like size, encoding and signedness.Well, the enum already has DW_AT_byte_size. It seems to me that it should also have DW_AT_encoding to provide the other two properties you mention.Right, that is the idea, since an enum doesn't provide those attributes, it should have a reference to the underlying base type that provides them.
Yes, but why is that better than providing them directly? The latter would seem to work better with non-C-family languages like Ada.
Jason
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