> A possible way to solve this problem is to add a single-bit flag to > INTEGER_TYPE nodes that indicates whether this is actually a character > type. Then dwarf2out.c could just check the flag to determine what > debug info to emit. It looks like we have a number of flag bits that > aren't being used in type nodes. This is much better than trying to do > string matches against type names to determine what is a character type.
We already have TYPE_STRING_FLAG used on array types. Maybe it would it make sense to use that? Paul