This is a regression present on the mainline and which stems from enabling -feliminate-unused-debug-types by default in Ada. We fail to emit the debugging information for tagged types when only the associated class-wide type is referenced in the source code.
Tested on i586-suse-linux, applied on the mainline. 2012-02-15 Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> * gcc-interface/trans.c (gnat_to_gnu) <N_Qualified_Expression>: If the type is tagged, mark it as used for debugging purposes. <N_Allocator>: Likewise for a qualified expression. -- Eric Botcazou
Index: gcc-interface/trans.c =================================================================== --- gcc-interface/trans.c (revision 184257) +++ gcc-interface/trans.c (working copy) @@ -5518,6 +5518,13 @@ gnat_to_gnu (Node_Id gnat_node) gnu_result = gnat_to_gnu (Expression (gnat_node)); gnu_result_type = get_unpadded_type (Etype (gnat_node)); + /* If this is a qualified expression for a tagged type, we mark the type + as used. Because of polymorphism, this might be the only reference to + the tagged type in the program while objects have it as dynamic type. + The debugger needs to see it to display these objects properly. */ + if (kind == N_Qualified_Expression && Is_Tagged_Type (Etype (gnat_node))) + used_types_insert (gnu_result_type); + gnu_result = convert_with_check (Etype (gnat_node), gnu_result, Do_Overflow_Check (gnat_node), @@ -5865,18 +5872,19 @@ gnat_to_gnu (Node_Id gnat_node) if (Is_Elementary_Type (gnat_desig_type) || Is_Constrained (gnat_desig_type)) - { - gnu_type = gnat_to_gnu_type (gnat_desig_type); - gnu_init = convert (gnu_type, gnu_init); - } + gnu_type = gnat_to_gnu_type (gnat_desig_type); else { gnu_type = gnat_to_gnu_type (Etype (Expression (gnat_temp))); if (TREE_CODE (gnu_type) == UNCONSTRAINED_ARRAY_TYPE) gnu_type = TREE_TYPE (gnu_init); - - gnu_init = convert (gnu_type, gnu_init); } + + /* See the N_Qualified_Expression case for the rationale. */ + if (Is_Tagged_Type (gnat_desig_type)) + used_types_insert (gnu_type); + + gnu_init = convert (gnu_type, gnu_init); } else gcc_unreachable ();