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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: New warning in GDB 7.5
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208191910.q7JJAnQ0023236@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lihad7y3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 19	Aug 2012 21:59:16 +0300)

> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:59:16 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:32:36 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> > CC: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > Unfortunately the partial symbol table only contains information about
> > symbols.  In particular it doesn't contain type info.  So the
> > transparent conversion doesn't kick in if your .gdbinit only
> > references types.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand.  Can you give an example of "only
> referencing types" as opposed to the other kind of references?

From the example you gave earlier:

    set $tem = (struct Lisp_Symbol *) $ptr

probably won't trigger a full symbol read since "struct Lisp_Symbol"
is a type and not a function or variable.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-19 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-18 20:03 Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-18 20:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-18 21:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-18 21:49     ` Mark Kettenis
2012-08-19  2:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19  4:37         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-19 16:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 18:07             ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-19 18:27               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 18:33                 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-19 18:33               ` Mark Kettenis
2012-08-19 18:59                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 19:11                   ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2012-08-19 19:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 14:24                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-20 16:33                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 17:07                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-20 17:35                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 15:01             ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-20 16:34               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 17:28                 ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-20 18:03                   ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-20 18:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 19:22                       ` Tom Tromey

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