Re: RFA: GCC stabs don't contain prototype info

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>]

Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > Is there a standard stabs convention for this?  If so, it would be a
> > good idea to make development GCC emit it.
> 
> Yes, there's the encoding developed by Sun, described in the GNU stabs
> manual.  It looks to me like GDB is ready to consume this info, so
> getting GCC to emit it would be great.
> 
> Until that's done, however, this test should XFAIL, so other engineers
> won't waste their time re-analyzing the failure.  (I don't mean to
> imply that you disagree; I just want to make things clear to the test
> suite maintainers.)

FYI, it is not only stabs that fails this test.  I've got a recent
elf/dwarf target that also fails it.  The problem wherein GDB cannot
reliably make this distinction is long standing, and much discussed
in the past.  Unfortunately most of the people who have taken part
in this discussion aren't around any more.