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Re: [2/3] RFC - reimplement common block support
Doug> OOC, do common blocks end up in .gdb_index?
Tom> I have only seen DW_TAG_common_block inside a function body.
Tom> I will look deeper though.
As far as I can tell (due to a quirk at my high school, I never learned
Fortran), common blocks are always declared inside functions. I thought
perhaps the "BLOCKDATA" construct might change this, but at least
gfortran does not generate debuginfo for this at all.
Tom