From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch] 'p->x' vs. 'p.x' and 'print object on'
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080807202011.GB2374@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tzdwhgv1.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Paul> C) Do what the language does: lookup field 'x' in the static type,
> Paul> and only try dynamic type if the first lookup failed:
>
> Paul> I think "C" is the least confusing alternative.
> Paul> It may actually be good to do "C" independent of the 'print object'
> Paul> setting.
>
> I agree. This does sound better.
I agree too. We have an extension that allows you to use "." on
pointers with the implicit dereference; but it shouldn't change the
type of the pointer, nor should ->. It's a reasonably well-defined
extension as such things go. At least, until you involve user-defined
operators.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 21:49 Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-07-22 0:53 ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-30 17:51 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-08-07 17:31 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-07 20:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-08-11 15:09 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-19 18:05 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-08-26 16:45 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-10-22 22:32 ` Ulrich Weigand
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