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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/10] Split tdesc_type into multiple classes
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o9ndp1h1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171203160430.20933-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> (Simon Marchi's	message of "Sun, 3 Dec 2017 11:04:30 -0500")

Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> writes:

> Hi Yao,
>
> I revisited this patch, and implemented as best as I could what you
> suggested.  This patch applies on top of the current series.
>
> This patch makes tdesc_type an abstract base class and creates three
> subclasses:
>
> - tdesc_type_builtin, for builtin types
> - tdesc_type_vector, for vector types
> - tdesc_type_with_fields, for struct, union, flag and enum types
>
> This allows getting rid of the union in tdesc_type and to not allow the
> std::vector separately.  I tried to go further and create separate
> classes for struct, union, flag and enum, but it proved too difficult.
> One problem is that from the point of the of the target description
> code, the types tdesc_type_* are opaque (only forward-declared).
> Therefore, it doesn't know about inheritance relationship between those
> classes.  This makes it impossible to make functions that accept a
> pointer to a base class and pass a pointer to a derived class, for
> example.  I think this patch here is a good compromise, and if somebody
> wants to improve things further, the door is open.
>
> A make_gdb_type virtual pure method is added to tdesc_type, which
> replaces the current tdesc_gdb_type function.  Calling this method on a
> tdesc_type returns the corresponding built gdb type.

Hi Simon,
Thanks for doing this, patch looks good to me.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31  1:42 [PATCH 00/10] Use std::vector and std::string throughout target-descriptions.c Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 10/10] Make tdesc_arch_data::arch_regs an std::vector Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 09/10] Make tdesc_type::u::u::fields " Simon Marchi
2017-11-02 10:02   ` Yao Qi
2017-11-02 13:27     ` Simon Marchi
2017-12-03 16:04       ` [PATCH 11/10] Split tdesc_type into multiple classes Simon Marchi
2017-12-05 16:46         ` Yao Qi [this message]
2017-12-05 21:42           ` Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 05/10] Make tdesc_feature::registers an std::vector Simon Marchi
2017-11-02  9:32   ` Yao Qi
2017-11-02 13:22     ` Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 04/10] Make tdesc_feature::name an std::string Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 07/10] Make tdesc_feature::types an std::vector Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 08/10] Make tdesc_type::name an std::string Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 01/10] Make target_desc::properties an std::vector Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 03/10] Make target_desc::features " Simon Marchi
2017-11-02  9:29   ` Yao Qi
2017-11-02 13:20     ` Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:42 ` [PATCH 06/10] Make tdesc_reg string fields std::string Simon Marchi
2017-11-02  9:43   ` Yao Qi
2017-11-02 13:24     ` Simon Marchi
2017-10-31  1:43 ` [PATCH 02/10] Make target_desc::compatible an std::vector Simon Marchi
2017-11-02 10:16 ` [PATCH 00/10] Use std::vector and std::string throughout target-descriptions.c Yao Qi

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