From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32721 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2010 09:48:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 32713 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Sep 2010 09:48:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl (HELO smtp-out0.tiscali.nl) (195.241.79.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:48:42 +0000 Received: from [212.123.169.34] (helo=[192.168.1.100]) by smtp-out0.tiscali.nl with esmtp (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1OxczH-0005sZ-Lr; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:48:39 +0200 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] python: gdb.Type: strip typedefs past pointers too From: Paul Bolle To: Phil Muldoon Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Daniel Jacobowitz , Joel Brobecker In-Reply-To: <4C972A26.6040505@redhat.com> References: <1284753356.21566.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4C972A26.6040505@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: <1284976091.1857.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 10:32 +0100, Phil Muldoon wrote: > I think the current behaviour is correct. Daniel took the time to explain that I basically tried to emulate what looks to be a bug in the ptype command. > Would you consider submitting it so that it > can be turned on (off by default) via keyword? (i.e. a recurse=True > keyword). That would allow us to preserve the existing functionality, > but allow the user an API friendly way for this alternate recursive > behaviour[.] Any thoughts on Joel's question (sent a few days ago): > (how about references?) ? Paul Bolle