From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: dje@google.com (Doug Evans), gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix crash of convenience vars with typedefs.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908171822.n7HIMEYV017944@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3skfqjvmm.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> from "Tom Tromey" at Aug 17, 2009 09:41:21 AM
Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> writes:
>
> Ulrich> Shouldn't the result of value_of_internalvar still have the original
> Ulrich> typedef name instead of the type it resolves to?
>
> This would be nice -- the wide character code relies on type names now,
> for instance -- but most of gdb already eagerly strips typedefs. E.g.,
> look at value_cast, where the resulting value is not actually of the
> type you pass in, but rather the type after stripping typedefs.
Indeed. It seems to me that those instances ought to fixed, however,
and we should avoid introducing new instances where possible ...
Bye,
Ulrich
--
Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-17 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-15 0:22 Doug Evans
2009-08-17 13:11 ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-08-17 16:10 ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-17 18:24 ` Ulrich Weigand [this message]
2009-08-17 18:22 ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-08-18 18:44 ` Doug Evans
2009-08-19 16:43 ` [commit] " Ulrich Weigand
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