The new encoding format I am proposing fall between DW_ATE_lo_user and DW_ATE_hi_user. So they are vendor extensions. Currently gcc uses DW_ATE_lo_user, which collides with an HP vendor extension.
-Doug 2007/12/14, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:30:36PM -0800, Doug Kwan (關振德) wrote: > > Is there anything I need to do in addition to changing gcc? Are > > there people I should talk to? And what documentation should be > > updated? Currently gdb (I checked 6.7) does not support complex > > integer properly. So it needs to be changed anyway. > > The DWARF standard has its own mailing list and working group. I > recommend contacting them first, to see if there's interest in a > general definition. > > If you just want to add it to the GNU tools, then lo_user seems like > the best place to put it - it's a vendor extension - so I don't > see the problem. > > -- > Daniel Jacobowitz > CodeSourcery >
