dwarf3 and others too [Re: [fpc-devel] Dwarf3 and the encoding of classes]

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 00:23 +0000, Martin wrote:
> I did some more test., I will check in later...
> 
> None of the old dwarf or stabs seems to define the <> operator for classes.
> p Foo<>Bar
> gives unknown symbold Foo<>Bar
> So it does take it as one symbol?
> 
> 
> nil
> nil is not defined ever.
> but under stabs dwarf2 Foo=0 works
> 
> 
> Dwarf 3:
> While the debugger can not do "@ArgTFoo^" in any stabs/dwarf, with the 
> older formats it can do "(@ArgTFoo)^" (apparently a question of the 
> order in which the operators are applied)
> Under dwarf 3 this fails.
> It outputs a class, so it has correctly gotten the type => but the data 
> in the class, the values of the members are wrong. So it may have 
> somewhere messed the address up ?
> 
> 
> a: PAnsiString = 'abc'
> -data-evaluate-expression a^
> empty string, but shopuld be 'abc'

Martin, you go way too fast. ;) The decision to change the Dwarf3-object
behavior was taken yesterday, and not even final. So now a patch has to
be written and committed. (Well, it is written...)

Same for variants and the enumerations. Your input is valuable, though.
Maybe better to open bug-reports for the variants and enumerations. So
it won't be forgotten.

For now I my main point is to get a proper case-sensitivity fix. Without
that the rest of dwarf-3 is useless anyway. 

btw: you can see what is changed for Dwarf-3 yourself very easily. It's
all in compiler/dbgdwarf.pp. The Dwarf-3 class overrides some methods.
(Indeed also those for variants)

Joost.