r244015 - in /trunk/gcc: ChangeLog dwarf2out.c

[pmderodat@gcc.gnu.org]

Author: pmderodat
Date: Tue Jan  3 08:54:57 2017
New Revision: 244015

URL: https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?rev=244015&root=gcc&view=rev
Log:
DWARF: add DW_AT_encoding attributes for DW_TAG_enumeration_type DIEs

Currently, the DWARF description does not specify the signedness of the
representation of enumeration types.  This is a problem in some
contexts where DWARF consumers need to determine if value X is greater
than value Y.

For instance in Ada:

    type Enum_Type is ( A, B, C, D);
    for Enum_Type use (-1, 0, 1, 2);

    type Rec_Type (E : Enum_Type) is record
       when A .. B => null;
       when others => B : Booleann;
    end record;

The above can be described in DWARF the following way:

    DW_TAG_enumeration_type(Enum_Type)
    | DW_AT_byte_size: 1
      DW_TAG_enumerator(A)
      | DW_AT_const_value: -1
      DW_TAG_enumerator(B)
      | DW_AT_const_value: 0
      DW_TAG_enumerator(C)
      | DW_AT_const_value: 1
      DW_TAG_enumerator(D)
      | DW_AT_const_value: 2

    DW_TAG_structure_type(Rec_Type)
      DW_TAG_member(E)
      | DW_AT_type: <Enum_Type>
      DW_TAG_variant_part
      | DW_AT_discr: <E>
        DW_TAG_variant
        | DW_AT_discr_list: DW_DSC_range 0x7f 0
        DW_TAG_variant
        | DW_TAG_member(b)

DWARF consumers need to know that enumerators (A, B, C and D) are signed
in order to determine the set of E values for which Rec_Type has a B
field.  In practice, they need to know how to interpret the 0x7f LEB128
number above (-1, not 127).

When in non-strict DWARF mode, this patch adds a DW_AT_encoding
attribute to generated DW_TAG_enumeration_type DIEs to make this
signedness explicit.

gcc/

	* dwarf2out.c (gen_enumeration_type_die): When
	-gno-strict-dwarf, add a DW_AT_encoding attribute.

Modified:
    trunk/gcc/ChangeLog
    trunk/gcc/dwarf2out.c