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From: "Andrew Burgess" <aburgess@broadcom.com>
To: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: "Joel Brobecker" <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	"Tom Tromey" <tromey@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc] display vector types using vector_size syntax
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <504EFFE4.1090007@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120910220620.GA3081@adacore.com>

On 10/09/2012 11:06 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Andrew> I'd like to change the behaviour to this:
>> Andrew> (gdb) ptype vector
>> Andrew> type = char ((vector_size(4)))
>> Andrew> (gdb) whatis vector
>> Andrew> type = char ((vector_size(4)))
>>
>> Seems reasonable to me.
>
> Just a thought: How about
>
>      type = char __attribute__ ((vector_size(4)))
>
> ?
>
> It know it's a lot more verbose, but the later speaks a lot more
> to me than the original proposal...

I only dropped this to avoid clutter, but I don't really mind either way.

I'll give it a couple more days for people to reply, then commit a 
version with "__attibute__".

Thanks,

Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-11  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-03 10:56 Andrew Burgess
2012-09-10 17:12 ` Tom Tromey
2012-09-10 22:06   ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-11  9:11     ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2012-09-11 11:35       ` Pedro Alves
2012-09-11 22:07       ` Stan Shebs
2012-09-14 21:27   ` Andrew Burgess
2012-10-26 18:53     ` Tom Tromey
2012-10-29 10:54       ` Andrew Burgess
2012-10-30 20:46         ` Tom Tromey

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