[Bug debug/53235] [4.8 Regression] 20120504 broke -fdebug-types-section

[jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53235

--- Comment #2 from Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com> 2012-05-07 14:32:59 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The testcase is failing because of the change from "A*" to "struct A*"?

Yes.

> Is that an important distinction?

In other cases it even crashes GDB, originally filed as:
  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14060
Or I see
  Internal error: non-aggregate type to value_struct_elt_for_reference
  Function "policy1::function" not defined.
  etc.

> If so, could you handle the case of a nameless typedef specially on your end?

Yes; I wanted to know first if this is an intended change.

FYI it does not seem to be DWARF compliant:
  The typedef entry has a DW_AT_name attribute whose value is a null-terminated
  string containing the name of the typedef as it appears in the source
program.