From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28402 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2004 21:30:51 -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 28390 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2004 21:30:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Nov 2004 21:30:47 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CSMWh-0003Pq-GZ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:30:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:30:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Snyder Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, jimb@redhat.com, ezannoni@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] stabs tweak -- forward reference types Message-ID: <20041111213042.GA12746@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, jimb@redhat.com, ezannoni@redhat.com References: <002a01c4c833$2030e8a0$5ca56b80@msnyder8600> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002a01c4c833$2030e8a0$5ca56b80@msnyder8600> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00251.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:12:12PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote: > Jim, Elena, > > There was a change about two years ago, related to G++ and derived classes. > See "complain_about_struct_wipeout" for comments. > > I have evidence that this change was too aggressive, and that it sometimes > interferes with the resolution of forward referenced struct pointer types. > Unfortunately, I'm not having any luck constructing a small testcase. Can you construct one just using .stabs directives? This is what gdb.stabs (and gdb.dwarf2) are for. -- Daniel Jacobowitz