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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [unwind-20030108-branch] Add sentinel-frame + misc
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2081C3.1080504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030111183437.GB1930@nevyn.them.org>


> It's hardly a bug; more of a deep interface shortcoming.  Consider:

Which is a bug.

> File A declares a type 'struct foo'.
> File B declares a type 'struct foo'.
> Header C forward declares 'struct foo;' and 'struct foo *get_foo ()'.
> File D includes Header C and uses 'get_foo'.
> 
> I'm sitting in File D, and I want to look in the debugger at this
> opaque unwind cache.  There's no possible way to associate it with
> either struct foo.
> 
> That's why I think the construct should be avoided; if one of them is
> A_foo and the other is B_foo, and we do a bit of casting, then at least
> I can dump the one I want.

Shouldn't something like:
	('File A:struct foo' *) get_foo()
work?  Even:
	(gdb) list 'File A'
	(gdb) print *(struct foo) get_foo()
How does GDB differentiate between variables and enum's when they have 
multiple declarations?

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-11 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-10  2:17 Andrew Cagney
2003-01-10  6:45 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-10 21:33   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-11 18:14     ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-11 18:34       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-11 20:42         ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-01-11 20:54           ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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