[gdb/symtab] Handle DW_AT_string_length with location list
Consider a fortran routine where a string variable s is modified:
...
subroutine f(s)
character*(*) s
print *, s
s(1:3) = 'oof'
print *, s
end subroutine f
...
When compiling with optimization level -O1 and printing the type of
variable s we get:
...
$ gdb -q -batch outputs/gdb.opt/fortran-string/fortran-string \
-ex "b f" \
-ex run \
-ex "ptype s"
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4006f7: file fortran-string.f90, line 21.
Breakpoint 1, f (s=..., _s=_s@entry=3) at fortran-string.f90:21
21 subroutine f(s)
type = character*1
...
while with -O0 we have instead:
...
type = character (3)
...
The problem is that the type of s is:
...
<1><2d6>: Abbrev Number: 21 (DW_TAG_string_type)
<2d7> DW_AT_string_length: 0xbf (location list)
<2db> DW_AT_byte_size : 4
...
where the DW_AT_string_length is a location list, a case that is not handled
by attr_to_dynamic_prop.
Fix this by handling attr->form_is_section_offset () in attr_to_dynamic_prop.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
The test-case is based on gdb.opt/fortran-string.exp from
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdb/raw/f32/f/gdb-archer-vla-tests.patch .
I've updated the copyrights to stretch to 2021.
[ I've tried to create a dwarf assembly test-case for this, but didn't
manage. ]
Co-Authored-By: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26910