From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3300 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2012 13:51:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 3286 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2012 13:51:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:51:04 +0000 From: "tromey at gcc dot gnu.org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug debug/16063] Debuggers need more information about enum types in C++ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:51:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: debug X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: tromey at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: CC Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-06/txt/msg01950.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16063 Tom Tromey changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tromey at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #5 from Tom Tromey 2012-06-29 13:50:49 UTC --- DWARF 4 allows this: The enumeration type entry may have a DW_AT_type attribute which refers to the underlying data type used to implement the enumeration. I think this is definitely needed for "enum class", where the base type can be specified by the user. However, emitting it unconditionally wouldn't hurt.