From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: drow@false.org
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfa] Stabs documentation tweak for pointers to members
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608022059.k72KxQNG007451@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060802032655.GA1847@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:26:55 -0400)
> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:26:55 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> When working on pointers to members I encountered only one place in
> GDB that seemed to need an actual "member" type, instead of just "pointer to
> member" (which is not really a pointer at all). That was in the stabs
> reader. The documentation says that stabs has a "member" construct, and
> represents pointers to members as pointers to that construct. The reader
> code matches this.
>
> But if this was ever the case for GCC, it hasn't been for a while. Now
> the @ descriptor means pointer to member. This patch corrects the manual;
> the final patch will correct the stabs reader.
For what it is worth, I couldn't find any refernce to @@ in the Sun
"Stabs Interface Manual", so it's indeed very likely this is a gcc
invention.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-02 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-02 3:26 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-02 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 3:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-02 21:00 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-08-02 21:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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