Hi,
I was adding the underlying type to an enumeration in a DWARF producer
(GCC) and wanted to drop the DW_AT_byte_size in case we have such an
underlying DW_AT_type. Since it looks redundant in that case. The
DW_AT_byte_size of the DW_TAG_enumeration should be equal to the size of
the underlying
Hi Mark,
I looked at TotalView's DWARF reader, and omitting DW_AT_byte_size from
DW_TAG_enumeration_type would require code changes. TotalView treats enums as
self-contained types with a discrete byte length; in other words, enum types
are not based on some other kind of type like "int" types.
It is my recollection that in DWARF the size attributes on enumeration
types are intended to be optional in the presence of a type attribute which
itself has a size. That is, the "may" is deliberate.
Ada in particular defines enumeration types in a way such that they have,
in effect, a definite un
Hello,
I asked our Ada gurus at AdaCore for some confirmation and here are
Tuck's answers (who says "Hi Ron!" :-)):
> Ada in particular defines enumeration types in a way such that they have,
> in effect, a definite underlying base integer type. This affects some
> details of type conversion betw
