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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/doco] Fix gdb.Field attributes documentation for enum types.
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vby92vo5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131228033003.GD4532@adacore.com>

> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:30:03 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -24338,8 +24338,8 @@ Each field is a @code{gdb.Field} object, with some pre-defined attributes:
>  @table @code
>  @item bitpos
>  This attribute is not available for @code{enum} or @code{static}
> -(as in C@t{++} or Java) fields.  The value is the bit position of
> -the field.
> +(as in C@t{++} or Java) fields.  The value is the position, counting
> +in bits, from the start of the containing type.

Thanks, this is clear.

I'm curious: why are the bit units useful?  Field offsets are
generally counted in bytes, not bits.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-28  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-23  7:23 Joel Brobecker
2013-12-23 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-28  3:30   ` Joel Brobecker
2013-12-28  9:05     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-12-30  2:57       ` Joel Brobecker

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