Tom Tromey 3b90597c2c Non constant size and offset in DWARF (#141106) ...

In Ada, a record type can have a non-constant size, and a field can
appear at a non-constant bit offset in a record.

To support this, this patch changes DIType to record the size and offset
using metadata, rather than plain integers. In addition to a constant
offset, both DIVariable and DIExpression are now supported here.

One thing of note in this patch is the choice of how exactly to
represent a non-constant bit offset, with the difficulty being that
DWARF 5 does not support this. DWARF 3 did have a way to support a
non-constant byte offset, combined with a constant bit offset within the
byte, but this was deprecated in DWARF 4 and removed from DWARF 5.

This patch takes a simple approach: a DWARF extension allowing the use
of an expression with DW_AT_data_bit_offset. There is a corresponding
DWARF issue, see https://dwarfstd.org/issues/250501.1.html. The main
reason for this approach is that it keeps API simplicity: just a single
value is needed, rather than having separate data describing the byte
offset and the bit within the byte.

2025-06-25 11:20:35 -07:00

79 KiB

Raw Blame History

View Raw