From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30511 invoked by alias); 17 May 2007 17:23:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 30502 invoked by uid 22791); 17 May 2007 17:23:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 May 2007 17:23:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E593E48CE51; Thu, 17 May 2007 13:23:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08350-01-4; Thu, 17 May 2007 13:23:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (unknown [70.71.0.212]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C5748CE3F; Thu, 17 May 2007 13:23:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 08DA9E7B4F; Thu, 17 May 2007 10:23:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:23:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] wrong pointer type length Message-ID: <20070517172334.GC508@adacore.com> References: <20070517161919.GA508@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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: 2007-05/txt/msg00297.txt.bz2 > If the assembler is doing this in other cases, you're going to be > pretty hosed. STABS requires records to appear in the order > specified. I know :-(. Unfortunately, we can't change the assembler, so I've added no too long ago a second list of undefined types that should allow us to handle this type of wild reordering. See: http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-02/msg00387.html -- Joel