From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from simark.ca by simark.ca with LMTP id boCUOXrNol81VwAAWB0awg (envelope-from ) for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2020 10:49:14 -0500 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 112) id DF63C1F08B; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:49:14 -0500 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on simark.ca X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from sourceware.org (server2.sourceware.org [8.43.85.97]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D41D1E552 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:49:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from server2.sourceware.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD15039BF8BC; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:49:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rock.gnat.com (rock.gnat.com [205.232.38.15]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383A3386EC0E for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:49:11 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 383A3386EC0E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=adacore.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=tromey@adacore.com Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174831166E1; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:49:11 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id XFtAOSEZepsT; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:49:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from murgatroyd (97-122-89-243.hlrn.qwest.net [97.122.89.243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B851C1164E7; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:49:10 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Tromey To: Tom Tromey Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Fix most -fgnat-encodings=minimal failures References: <20200930200600.1207702-1-tromey@adacore.com> X-Attribution: Tom Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 08:49:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20200930200600.1207702-1-tromey@adacore.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:05:51 -0600") Message-ID: <87wnz1jf61.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb-patches mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Errors-To: gdb-patches-bounces@sourceware.org Sender: "Gdb-patches" >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey writes: Tom> GNAT has two debuginfo modes -- the default, which is to emit "GNAT Tom> encodings", and -fgnat-encodings=minimal, which emits something closer Tom> to pure DWARF. Tom> Historically gdb has only handled GNAT encodings. This patch series Tom> brings gdb most of the way to handling -fgnat-encodings=minimal. The Tom> remaining issues are going to require some patches to GNAT and gdb; my Tom> plan is to only land the gdb changes once the GNAT changes have gone Tom> in. Tom> Patches #2 - #9 were all reviewed internally by Joel. However, they Tom> aren't all purely Ada-specific. (Patch #1 is new, written while I was Tom> prepping this series -- see the comments there.) Tom> For gdb itself, the benefit of these changes is that with Tom> minimal-encodings, the Ada type system works more like the rest of Tom> gdb. For users the main benefit is that the Python API works more Tom> nicely. I'm checking these in now. Tom