From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27654 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2012 19:46:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 27646 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Nov 2012 19:46:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:46:09 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qADJk9ki031981 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:46:09 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id qADJk7aR025246 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:46:08 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] bitpos expansion summary reloaded References: <20120929173938.GA2987@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120929181141.GA4009@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120930065211.GA21118@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121003184155.03dceed4@spoyarek> <20121003195627.GA17283@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121004071314.GA4292@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121021130546.02ea680c@spoyarek> <20121025155412.GA16619@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121025222123.68c7b118@spoyarek> <20121106200117.GA4110@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121107134742.GA26600@host2.jankratochvil.net> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20121107134742.GA26600@host2.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Wed, 7 Nov 2012 14:47:42 +0100") Message-ID: <87ip9970cg.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2012-11/txt/msg00335.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil writes: Jan> This is a repeating issue like the checked-in cu_offset vs. sect_offset, Jan> therefore to use something like: Jan> typedef struct Jan> { Jan> int64_t x; Jan> } ssize64_type; I'm concerned about how invasive this might turn out to be. Maybe you could say something reassuring. Jan> BTW it would be all sure much easier with C++ and its operator Jan> overloading. Yeah, but I think it is clear now that this will never happen. We just have to make the best of the tools we do have. Tom