From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: jingham@apple.com
Cc: drow@mvista.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: add set cp-abi command
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8296-Thu11Apr2002222005+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C31A558C-4CAE-11D6-B08E-000393540DDC@apple.com> (message from Jim Ingham on Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:14:13 -0700)
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:14:13 -0700
> From: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
>
> > Please explain in a few words what "ABI" means; I don't think Joe Random
> > C++ User will necessarily know that. A list of possible values one can
> > use (in addition to "auto") is also something the manual should have.
>
> I not sure I agree with this. First off, this "set" section doesn't
> explain what other similarly obscure terms mean (like "set vtable").
> These are expert features, so if you need them presumably you know what
> they are.
Nevertheless, I think it doesn't hurt to say something like this:
Set the C@t{++} @dfn{ABI} (Application Binary Interface) that
@value{GDBN} will use to decode C@t{++} objects.
> Also, the available types are dynamically generated.
Does it mean we don't know at least some of the possible values in
advance? I'd be surprised.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-11 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-13 10:56 Jim Ingham
2002-03-13 12:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-14 13:14 ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-14 13:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-15 15:53 ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-15 19:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-18 12:01 ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-20 15:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-20 19:02 ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-22 10:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-22 11:04 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-22 11:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-22 11:29 ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-09 17:27 ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-09 17:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-10 11:10 ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-10 11:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-09 22:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-10 11:14 ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-11 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-03-15 17:11 ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-13 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-14 15:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-15 10:33 ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-15 17:29 ` Andrew Cagney
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