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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Treat attributes as code in DWARF assembler
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:23:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bjnamnev.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250908154930.822046-1-tromey@adacore.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Mon, 8 Sep 2025 09:49:30 -0600")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> writes:

Tom> The DWARF assembler treats the 'children' of a DIE as plain Tcl code,
Tom> evaluating it in the parent context.

Tom> I don't recall why, but when I wrote this code, I didn't do the same
Tom> thing for the attributes.  Instead, there I implemented a special
Tom> syntax.  I was looking at this today and wondered why I didn't just
Tom> use ordinary evaluation as well.

Tom> This patch implements this idea.

I'm checking this in now.  I rebased it and re-ran the regression tests.
And, I grepped the gdb.log to make sure there weren't any new Tcl
errors.  However, I find this process to be a bit error-prone -- so if
you find that I have missed something, please let me know and I will fix
it.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-16 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-08 15:49 Tom Tromey
2025-09-16 15:23 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2025-09-16 15:24 ` Tom Tromey

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