From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Sanimir Agovic <sanimir.agovic@intel.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] C99 variable length array support
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131218030135.GC3493@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387282678-3847-1-git-send-email-sanimir.agovic@intel.com>
> this patch series (v3) add C99 variable length support to gdb.
>
> It allows the user to evaluate a vla like an ordinary static array e.g. print
> its elements instead of printing the pointer to the array. In addition the size
> of a vla can be retrieved with gdbs builtin sizeof operator.
>
>
> 1| void foo (size_t n) {
> 2| int ary[n];
> 3| memset(ary, 0, sizeof(ary));
> 4| }
>
> (gdb) print ary
> $1 = {0 <repeats 42 times>}
>
> (gdb) print sizeof ary
> $2 = 168
I haven't had time so far to say how excited I am to see this patch
series. I think this is going to be extremely useful, and not just
for C. I can see Fortran being mentioned, but I think Pascal and Ada
also will be able to benefit from it.
So Thank You!
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-18 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-17 12:18 Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-17 12:18 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] vla: introduce new bound type abstraction adapt uses Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-18 3:24 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-12-18 15:59 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2014-01-15 21:39 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-16 2:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-16 17:03 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2014-01-16 17:39 ` Tom Tromey
2013-12-17 12:18 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] type: add c99 variable length array support Sanimir Agovic
2014-01-15 21:07 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-16 17:01 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2013-12-17 12:18 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] vla: print "variable length" for unresolved dynamic bounds Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-17 12:18 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] vla: enable sizeof operator for indirection Sanimir Agovic
2014-01-15 21:28 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-16 17:02 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2013-12-17 12:18 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] vla: update type from newly created value Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-18 3:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-12-17 12:18 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] vla: support for DW_AT_count Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-17 12:19 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] test: evaluate pointers to C99 vla correctly Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-17 12:19 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] test: basic c99 vla tests for C primitives Sanimir Agovic
2014-01-15 21:39 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-16 17:02 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2014-01-16 17:33 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-17 13:36 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2014-01-20 5:47 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-20 9:32 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2013-12-17 12:19 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] test: add mi vla test Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-17 12:19 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] test: cover subranges with present DW_AT_count attribute Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-17 12:19 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] vla: enable sizeof operator to work with variable length arrays Sanimir Agovic
2014-01-15 21:24 ` Tom Tromey
2013-12-17 12:19 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] test: multi-dimensional c99 vla Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-17 12:19 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] vla: resolve dynamic bounds if value contents is a constant byte-sequence Sanimir Agovic
2013-12-18 3:01 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2014-01-15 21:41 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] C99 variable length array support Tom Tromey
2014-01-16 17:05 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2014-01-16 22:11 ` Tom Tromey
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