------- Comment #24 from dberlin at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-09-20 00:00 ------- You guys should be aware that dwarf2/3 has a field in the header of each dwarf compilation unit labeled "address size" that tells what the address size for that compilation unit is. If this is set to 4, you should be able to use 4 byte addresses and any conforming dwarf2 reader will understand it and use it to determine how many bytes the address forms (DW_FORM_addr, etc) use. See section 7.5.1 of the DWARF3 standard.
This is the way the consumer is supposed to know what the address size in a dwarf2 is (there is also a way to tell the consumer what the offset size should be for file offsets, in case you want to have really large debug info on a machine with < 8 byte *addresses*), i'm not sure why you think you need an extra note. See the rest of the DWARF2/3 specification for more details. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19087
