From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Jerome Guitton <guitton@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/Ada] remove ref to fields and ref to slices
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081208233013.GJ3823@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081127100443.GA64300@adacore.com>
> 2008-11-27 Jerome Guitton <guitton@adacore.com>
>
> * ada-lang.c (ada_value_slice_ptr): Return a lazy value instead
> of a reference. Update comment.
> (ada_value_struct_elt): Ditto if arg is a pointer or a reference.
> Update comment as well.
OK, but a couple of comments:
> static struct value *
> ada_value_slice_ptr (struct value *array_ptr, struct type *type,
> int low, int high)
Could you rename this function to "ada_value_slice"? Since we no longer
return a pointer to the slice but the slice itself, the _ptr suffix
could be confusing.
> @@ -6178,9 +6178,7 @@ ada_index_struct_field_1 (int *index_p,
> /* Given ARG, a value of type (pointer or reference to a)*
> structure/union, extract the component named NAME from the ultimate
> target structure/union and return it as a value with its
> - appropriate type. If ARG is a pointer or reference and the field
> - is not packed, returns a reference to the field, otherwise the
> - value of the field (an lvalue if ARG is an lvalue).
> + appropriate type. Return the value of the field.
The last sentence you added seems redundant with the one before it
(that you adjusted).
--
Joel
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2008-12-08 23:31 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-12-09 10:04 ` Jerome Guitton
2008-12-09 10:55 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-12-12 15:29 ` Jerome Guitton
2008-12-12 17:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-12-15 10:42 ` Jerome Guitton
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