From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: partially fix empty DW_OP_piece
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100604214701.GA8886@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k4qetr45.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:39:06 +0200, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jan> OK, that probably means there really must remain a way to convert
> Jan> `inferior dependent struct value' into an `inferior independent
> Jan> struct value'.
>
> Yeah, at least as far as the bounds are concerned. IMO.
>
> The current gdb model is sort of mixed. A struct value is a snapshot of
> some bit of state. But, when printing a value, we might refer to other
> state in the target. For example:
>
> struct x { char *name; };
Understood but I find it more wrong in (plain) C as it has no `string' type.
The same problem happens for other data types being PythonPrettyPrinted.
Thanks,
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-04 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-14 6:39 Tom Tromey
2010-05-14 22:51 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-05-21 19:48 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-01 17:34 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-02 18:54 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-06-02 20:07 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-03 17:46 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-06-04 19:05 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-04 19:10 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-06-04 21:39 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-04 21:47 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2010-05-20 23:04 ` Joel Brobecker
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