From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080105185319.GA10591@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080104151340.GC3758@adacore.com>
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:13:40AM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The subject says it all. Before the patch, you could do:
>
> (gdb) ptype type_name
>
> But if you wanted to get the type of one field inside that type,
> you would hit a limitation:
>
> (gdb) ptype circle.pos
> Invalid attempt to select from type: "circle.pos".
>
> The attached patch enhances the debugger to able to do the above.
Is this actually valid in Ada? You can't do this in C, which is why
GDB doesn't handle it for ptype.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-04 15:14 Joel Brobecker
2008-01-05 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 14:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-05 18:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-01-06 4:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-06 9:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-07 14:48 ` Joel Brobecker
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