From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14724 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2012 09:11:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 14709 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Sep 2012 09:11:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mms1.broadcom.com (HELO mms1.broadcom.com) (216.31.210.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:10:51 +0000 Received: from [10.9.200.133] by mms1.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (Email Firewall v6.5)); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:09:44 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 06151B78-6688-425E-9DE2-57CB27892261 Received: from mail-irva-13.broadcom.com (10.11.16.103) by IRVEXCHHUB02.corp.ad.broadcom.com (10.9.200.133) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.247.2; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:10:04 -0700 Received: from [10.177.73.63] (unknown [10.177.73.63]) by mail-irva-13.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB2F9FC7F; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <504EFFE4.1090007@broadcom.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:11:00 -0000 From: "Andrew Burgess" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" cc: "Joel Brobecker" , "Tom Tromey" Subject: Re: [rfc] display vector types using vector_size syntax References: <50448CC0.8060706@broadcom.com> <87627lerap.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20120910220620.GA3081@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20120910220620.GA3081@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 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