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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je7iins4iy.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080106043437.GI5975@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of 	"Sat\, 5 Jan 2008 20\:34\:37 -0800")

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> >    (gdb) ptype circle.pos
>> >    Invalid attempt to select from type: "circle.pos".
>> > 
>> > The attached patch enhances the debugger to able to do the above.
>> 
>> Is this actually valid in Ada?  You can't do this in C, which is why
>> GDB doesn't handle it for ptype.
>
> Actually, it isn't. But it seemed like a natural extension...

For C you can use this:

(gdb) ptype ((circle)0).pos

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-04 15:14 Joel Brobecker
2008-01-05 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 14:59   ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-05 18:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-06  4:35   ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-06  9:11     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-01-07 14:48       ` Joel Brobecker

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