[Bug debug/7580] incorrect/unfortunate DWARF-2 info for static const int class members

[carlton@bactrian.org]

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7580



------- Additional Comments From carlton@bactrian.org  2003-06-09 01:13 -------
(To be honest, it isn't the best bug report I've ever written: I really
shouldn't have conflated the two issues in one bug report.  My apologies.)

I don't mind so much the fact that debug info is emitted for an uninitialized,
unreferenced static const int member: I don't really think that's a bug so
much as a quality-of-implementation issue.  But
the other issue, that static members are labelled as DW_TAG_variable
instead of DW_TAG_member, really is a GCC bug.  It's certainly not an
urgent one - GDB accepts it, and will continue to do so for the indefinite
future - but it's not what the DWARF 2 standard says to do, and it might
confuse other debuggers.

I have a GCC patch for it; I'll submit it once the next version of GDB is
released (since currently released versions of GDB don't actually accept
the correct debug info).