From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26236 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2009 18:59:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 26227 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2009 18:59:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:59:14 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230B110B26; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:59:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (209.195.188.212.nauticom.net [209.195.188.212]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009D810A60; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:59:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LoMhS-0000LL-FF; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:59:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:03:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Ping: canonicalize type names on input / output Message-ID: <20090330185910.GA1277@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2009-03/txt/msg00684.txt.bz2 On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:48:31PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > I'd like to ping this patch of Daniel's: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-10/msg00510.html > > I didn't see any response to the content of this patch. > > I would like to put this in as a prerequisite for the Python > pretty-printing support. Without this, it is difficult to manipulate > some types by name, e.g.: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/archer/2008-q4/msg00219.html > > We've been using this on the Python branch, and a couple others, for a > while without ill effects; though Jan did find a bug and supplied this > additional fix: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/archer/2009-q1/msg00383.html > > If there are no comments I will check this in. Please do, with Jan's fix. I wanted to add a NEWS entry, but Eli suggested a more expansive one than I wrote at the time; that needs doing too. Thank you! -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery