From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23928 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2008 23:34:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 23918 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Sep 2008 23:34:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate5.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate5.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.154) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:33:42 +0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate5.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m82NWKYY655664 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:32:20 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m82NWKI43395654 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:32:20 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m82NWKlg002417 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:32:20 +0200 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id m82NWKvJ002414; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:32:20 +0200 Message-Id: <200809022332.m82NWKvJ002414@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:32:20 +0200 Subject: Re: [rfc][15/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Dereferencing of integer types To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:34:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Tromey" at Sep 01, 2008 01:16:35 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2008-09/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand writes: > > Ulrich> GDB allows to dereference an integer type, treating it as if > Ulrich> it were an "int *". > > Ulrich> It might make sense to check for which languages this extension > Ulrich> is actually useful, and remove it from the rest. > > Ulrich> * jv-lang.c (evaluate_subexp_java): Likewise. > > FWIW -- I couldn't come up with a situation where this extension makes > sense for Java. I'm certain I have never used it while debugging Java > code. Fine with me -- I'll leave the jv-lang.c part out then. Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com