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From: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: PING Re: [RFA 0/5] Use language mode in 'info [functions|variables|types]|rbreak'
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1542136537.1531.6.camel@skynet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181028144614.14149-1-philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>


thanks


On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 15:46 +0100, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> The commands 'info [functions|variables|types]|rbreak' work
> on the global program, not only in the current frame.
> So in in mixed languages program, these commands examine and print
> entities defined in different languages.
> 
> Now, GDB uses the current language to print all the results of
> these commands, which is somewhat surprising.
> 
> For example, when the current frame is in Ada,
> info function gethostbyname gives:
>   File ../nss/getXXbyYY.c:
>   87:	function gethostbyname (a1: access char) return access hostent;
> 
> This patch series ensures that these commands respect the 'set language auto'
> setup, to print the results in the language used to define the printed
> entities.
> 
> 


      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-28 14:46 Philippe Waroquiers
2018-10-28 14:46 ` [RFA 2/5] Use scoped_switch_auto_to_sym_language in symtab.c to switch language Philippe Waroquiers
2018-11-16 18:28   ` Pedro Alves
2018-11-17 12:24     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-10-28 14:46 ` [RFA 5/5] NEWS: Document the language choice by 'info [types|functions|variables]|rbreak' Philippe Waroquiers
2018-10-28 15:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-28 14:46 ` [RFA 4/5] Document language choice in 'info [functions|variables|types]|rbreak' commands Philippe Waroquiers
2018-10-28 15:33   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-28 14:46 ` [RFA 3/5] Add a test to verify info [functions|variables|types]|rbreak respect language_mode Philippe Waroquiers
2018-11-16 18:30   ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-28 14:46 ` [RFA 1/5] Add class scoped_switch_auto_to_sym_language Philippe Waroquiers
2018-11-16 18:27   ` Pedro Alves
2018-11-13 19:15 ` Philippe Waroquiers [this message]

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