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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	       gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>,
	Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch]: Adjust the use of 'long' type in dwarf2.h header
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217191714.GD30899@tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikMqqT_a2vYUDahPzXbLo-wT5yHY40o6zyJDxjk@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:06:53PM +0100, Kai Tietz wrote:
> > I'd prefer if we could move those binutils specific internal implementation
> > details out of the dwarf2.h header, keep it really just for the stuff
> > defined in the standard, and add a new binutils specific header somewhere
> > else which would contain binutils specific details.
> 
> Well, so we make dwarf2.h in include just host-specific and isn't able
> to cover things for foreign target, like 32-bit host can't use this
> header for 64-bit dwarf2 information. I am fine by this, but
> nevertheless is then the use of 'unsigned long' type within this
> header still an issue. Here should be used instead then 'intptr_t'. As
> on LLP64 unsigned long isn't wide-enough.

I mean that none of the DWARF2_Internal types should be in the
include/dwarf2.h headers (that's implementation specific stuff),
and the DWARF2_External types are questionable too, to me they look
very much like implementation detail too.  E.g. DWARF2_External_LineInfo
type is dubious, because it might somehow describe version 2 or 3
.debug_line header, but version 4 looks differently, etc.
So IMHO the DWARF2_External stuff should be moved too.
And the guard should be probably renamed from _ELF_DWARF2_H to _DWARF2_H,
I don't see anything ELF specific in the header.

	Jakub

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17 14:21 Kai Tietz
2011-02-17 18:59 ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-17 19:03   ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-02-17 19:07     ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-17 19:17       ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2011-02-18  9:50         ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 12:37           ` NightStrike
2011-02-21 13:10 ` Pierre Muller
     [not found] ` <-8460070221060995487@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-21 13:27   ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 13:46     ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]     ` <-6930711422310680743@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-21 14:30       ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 15:25         ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 15:43           ` Mark Kettenis
2011-02-21 15:53             ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-22 15:21           ` Nick Clifton
2011-02-23  8:59             ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-23 15:12               ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]               ` <-2339605939192327273@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-23 17:42                 ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-23 21:55                   ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]                   ` <-3886800211494155692@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-23 22:51                     ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-24 11:33                       ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]                       ` <1561346207520594884@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-24 13:50                         ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-25 10:40                           ` [RFC] Use only dwarf_vma types in dwarf code (was RE: [RFC patch]: Adjust the use of 'long' type in dwarf2.h header) Pierre Muller
     [not found]                           ` <5095785081977025060@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-25 12:23                             ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-25 13:31                               ` Pierre Muller
2011-02-25 13:35                               ` [RFC-v2] Use only dwarf_vma types in dwarf code Pierre Muller
2011-03-25 15:16                                 ` Nick Clifton
2011-03-25 15:48                                   ` [RFA] Supplemtal patch for use " Pierre Muller
2011-03-25 18:04                                     ` Nick Clifton
2011-03-25 21:44                                       ` Pierre Muller

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