This is contrary to the C standards, but ORCA/C historically permitted it (as do some other compilers), and I think there is a fair amount of existing code that relies on it.
These are initially entered into the symbol table with no known type (itype = nil), so this case should be accounted for in NewSymbol.
This typically would not cause a problem, but might if the zero page contained certain values
const structs are wrapped in definedType. The debugger symbol table code is unaware of this, which results in missing or incomplete entries.
example:
const struct { int a; int b; } cs;
cs: isForwardDeclared = false; class = ident
4 byte constant defined type of
4 byte struct: 223978
const struct { int a; int b; } *pcs;
pcs: isForwardDeclared = false; class = ident
4 byte pointer to
4 byte constant defined type of
4 byte struct: 224145
const struct { const struct { const int a; } a[2]; } csa[5];
csa: isForwardDeclared = false; class = ident
20 byte 5 element array of
4 byte constant defined type of
4 byte struct: 225155
const struct { const struct { const int a; } a[2]; } *cspa[5];
cspa: isForwardDeclared = false; class = ident
20 byte 5 element array of
4 byte pointer to
4 byte constant defined type of
4 byte struct: 224850
This change unwraps the definedType so the underlying type info can be placed in the debugger symbol table.
In the case of structs or unions, an error is now produced. This addresses one of the problems mentioned in issue #53.
In the case of arrays, tentative definitions like "int i[];" are now permitted at file scope. If not completed by a subsequent definition, this winds up producing an array with one element, initialized to 0. See the discussion and example in C99/C11 section 6.9.2 (or C90 section 6.7.2 and example in TC1).
Memory for them is still allocated from the global pool, to ensure they remain available for as long as the function prototype that references them.
This addresses one of the problems mentioned in issue #53.
Previously, when a struct type first appeared in a symbol table nested within another struct type, subsequent references to that type would use the wrong offset and be corrupted. This occurred because the symbol table length had not yet been updated to reflect the size of the entry for the outer structure at the time the inner one was processed.
Fixes#54.
Global structs and unions with the const qualifier were not being generated in object files. This occurred because they were represented as having "defined types" and the code was not handling those types properly.
The following example demonstrated this problem:
const struct x { int i; } X = {9};
int main(void) {
return X.i;
}
This fixes a problem with ORCA/C conformance test C5.6.0.1.CC, which was introduced by commit bf9fa66. A slightly more involved fix was needed to preserve the correct behavior while avoiding the memory trashing fixed by that patch.
