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Re: [2/3] RFC - reimplement common block support

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:44:42 -0600
Subject: Re: [2/3] RFC - reimplement common block support
References: <87a9xofbor.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <CADPb22RG2gdZiCVaRoUGvoCtGZ=iavGxu=udExZ=ZNzZLW3m-Q@mail.gmail.com> <87txvvt389.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

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

References:
- [2/3] RFC - reimplement common block support
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: [2/3] RFC - reimplement common block support
  - From: Doug Evans
- Re: [2/3] RFC - reimplement common block support
  - From: Tom Tromey

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