[Ltrace-devel] Getting prototypes from debug information

[Mark Wielaard]

On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 15:19 +0200, Petr Machata wrote:
> > - in getEnum, you assume that the underlying type is INT.  That may not
> >   be the case.  In C++11, you can actually choose the underlying enum
> >   type.  DW_TAG_enumeration_type's DW_AT_type (if present) will point to
> >   that underlying type.
> 
> I looked into this, and GCC currently doesn't seem to emit DW_AT_type
> for enums with specified base.

Coincidentally I did submit a patch for that some weeks ago, but I was
too late for gcc 4.9 so it is still pending. I just pinged it:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-04/msg00713.html

Tom wrote a patch for GDB to take advantage of it:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-03/msg00703.html

Cheers,

Mark