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DWARF Standard
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211108.1 |
Luis Ferreira |
Add DW_AT_artificial for DW_TAG_typedef |
Enhancement |
Open |
Hafiz Abid Qadeer |
Section various, pg various
Currently, there is no way to specify that a typedef is artificially generated
by the compiler. This is particularly useful when a typedef is built-in into
the compiler, and no DECL is defined. To avoid using 0 on DECL attributes,
DW_AT_artificial should be available to tell the debuggers that this typedef
was generated.
Real-world cases where I see this applicable are compilers that generate C
standard typedefs to speed up a compilation or typedef members inside of
generated structs that are composed by other derivate types with an opaque
pointer. An example of these data types is D associative array structs that
contain an opaque pointer matching a key and value typedef.
The DWARF specification can also be revised to accommodate the DW_AT_artificial
attribute on other tags.