Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Proposal to add DW_AT_alignment

2014-06-02 Thread Joel Brobecker
> Thanks, I didn't know that. The proposal was certainly written with the > above and the description C11 in mind. One thing I wanted to make clear > was that a producer only needs to add the alignment if it is different > from the default alignment as used for the language and abi. And that > the

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Proposal to add DW_AT_alignment

2014-06-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:33 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Very interesting proposal! Thanks for putting it together. Thanks. BTW part of the reason to propose this was the new gcc/gdb expression support for C as recently posted to the gcc and gdb lists: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-05/

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Proposal to add DW_AT_alignment

2014-05-28 Thread Joel Brobecker
Hi Mark, > I saw the submission deadline has officially passed, but I wanted to put > up a formal proposal anyway. If not accepted to DWARF5 I will first > implement it as a GNU extensions. But of course even in that case I > would like feedback to make sure the extension is as close as possible >

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Proposal to add DW_AT_alignment

2014-05-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 15:29 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Another thing added in C11 is the _Alignas specifier through which a > user can request to have a type or object that is stricter than the > default alignment for the type of object. Existing compilers like GCC > already allow users to speci