[RFC] Slightly improved DWARF2 debug info for Fortran

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Sat Nov 11 08:02:00 GMT 2006


> > Right.  I don't claim to be a dwarf2out.c maintainer, though; I think 
> > this would be better, but some other folks might not.
> 
> I wonder what Ada does here since it has reference passing too.

The Ada mode in GDB makes the distinction between references and
pointers. In the case of references, it automatically dereferences
them and prints the actual data.

(so the fact that we still use some forms of encoding is not relevant
in this particular case)

-- 
Joel



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