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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080107144739.GG32517@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je7iins4iy.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

> > Actually, it isn't. But it seemed like a natural extension...
> 
> For C you can use this:
> 
> (gdb) ptype ((circle)0).pos

That's clever. Thinking more about it, I'm realizing that it might
not be as natural as I first thought it would be. The fact is that
I did use it without really thinking about it a couple of times,
but it's as easy to do: ptype circle, see what the type of pos is,
then do ptype of that type, etc.

IIRC, the extension was requested by a customer, so we (AdaCore)
cannot remove it from our sources.  But we can certainly remove it
from the FSF tree if we want to.  At this point, I think it's
harmless, so I'm inclined to leave it for now.  Comments welcome.

-- 
Joel


      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 14:48 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
2008-01-06  4:35   ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-06  9:11     ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-07 14:48       ` Joel Brobecker [this message]

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