Re: RFC: fix PR 12707

Jan Kratochvil
2013-01-17T22:33:36Z

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:04:37 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:59:49 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > I think that would require too much memory for what is really a marginal
> > feature.
>
> I find it an essential feature to be able to break on function where the
> application has crashed, I was using it myself several times for some C++
> application (Firefox probably).

For example in this simple case:

_Z6outer2IsEPFilES1_

displayed with nm -C as:
int (*outer2<short>(int (*)(long)))(long)

But one has to transform it for GDB into the DMGL_RET_DROP form as:
outer2<short>(int (*)(long))

Which seems non-trivial for a copy-paste to me, sure it can be much more
complicated.

Regards,
Jan