From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8265 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2007 16:47:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 8252 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2007 16:47:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:47:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 13789 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2007 16:47:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 31 Jul 2007 16:47:11 -0000 To: Gaius Mulley Cc: Eli Zaretskii , deuling@de.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unbounded array support implemented (for Modula-2) References: <874pjs57zg.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> <46A847CE.7030907@de.ibm.com> <87ir866ocg.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> <87r6mqif61.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> <871weops83.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:48:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <871weops83.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> (Gaius Mulley's message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:23:24 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2007-07/txt/msg00334.txt.bz2 Gaius Mulley writes: > thank you for the various pointers (re: dwarf2 opcodes, subranges and > unbounded arrays - I also note your --fixme-- in the dwarf2read code) > - I wonder whether it might be better to hold off applying the patch > and attempt to solve the problem properly using the COMPUTE_BOUND > method explained above. I'm willing to attempt this - its always more > satisfying solving a problem correctly :-) and in theory this method > might be useful for Pascal as well. It should also mean ISO M2 > multidimensional unbounded arrays will be easier to implement. Wonderful! I admire your readiness to take this on; I'll be happy to help as much as I can. Yes, I think this would work for Pascal as well. I don't know how much work this is, but if there were some way you could get GNU Modula-2 into Fedora Core or Fedora Extras, I think that might increase your audience a bit. These days, if I can't install something by typing 'sudo yum install foo', I move on to something else. (By the way, what's entailed in getting GNU Modula-2 into the main GCC sources?)