From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4880 invoked by alias); 4 May 2002 03:02:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4872 invoked from network); 4 May 2002 03:02:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 May 2002 03:02:57 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 173pp2-0003vA-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 23:02:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 20:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: don't corrupt cv_type chain Message-ID: <20020504030256.GA15047@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20020504002026.6E6BA5EA11@zwingli.cygnus.com> <20020504003229.GB4915@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2 On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:59:26PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote: > Yes, it is. I'll put it back. Thanks! > > DWARF-2 has to mutate types somewhat, certainly; but this sort of > > smashing is avoidable and quite disgusting. There should be an > > explicit list of things it is safe to modify, rather than the axe > > that is replace_type. Adding a size or a a field list is > > legitimate, but many of the other fields should not change. > > Isn't this, essentially, what my comment says? Yes, it is. Sorry for going off about it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer