[Dwarf-Discuss] How to generate DWARF info for a template alias to a raw pointer

[Robinson, Paul]

> Could someone help to point out what kind of DWARF info should
> be generated for below c++ source? Thanks
> 
> ```
> template<class T>
> using ptr = T*;
> 
> ptr<int>  abc;
> ```
> 
> We declare a template alias here, so we may generate
> `DW_TAG_template_type_parameter` like:
> 
> ```
> 0x00000057:   DW_TAG_base_type
>                 DW_AT_name  ("int")
>                 DW_AT_byte_size          (0x04)
>                 DW_AT_encoding           (DW_ATE_signed)
> 
> 0x0000005e:   DW_TAG_pointer_type
>                 DW_AT_type    (0x00000057 "int")
> 
> 0x00000064:   DW_TAG_template_alias
>                 DW_AT_name  ("ptr")
>                 DW_AT_type    (0x0000005e "int *")
> 
> 0x00000076:     DW_TAG_template_type_parameter
>                   DW_AT_name               ("T")
>                   DW_AT_type  (0x00000057 "int")
> 
> 0x0000007e:   DW_TAG_variable
>                 DW_AT_name  ("abc")
>                 DW_AT_type    (0x00000064 "ptr<int>")
> ```

This all looks okay to me, with DW_TAG_template_type_parameter
being a child of DW_TAG_template_alias.  There's an alias
named `ptr`, its formal parameter is `T`, its actual parameter
is `int`, and so the alias is a typedef of `int *`.

> ` DW_TAG_template_type_parameter ` should be for a notation to
> create a template base on another template, but as you can see
> the referred type 0x0000005e is not a template. What kind of
> DWARF info should we generate here? We should use 
> ` DW_TAG_typedef` instead of ` DW_TAG_template_type_parameter`
> for this special case?

DW_TAG_template_type_parameter is correctly describing the
parameter to the template.

There's no need for a DW_TAG_typedef, because DW_TAG_template_alias
is implicitly a typedef.

--paulr