From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix jit.exp on most 32-bit targets.
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r52j8hdz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111011.151141.2005206627187628853.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:11:41 -0400 (EDT)")
>>>>> "David" == David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
David> We're going to have to, at some point, have gdb be able to properly
David> lay out structures, unions, and other data structures, as well as do
David> the work of passing arguments and receiving return values,
David> generically. And this is a sort-of micro-step in that direction.
Yeah, it would be useful to be able to create structure types at
runtime.
Actually, we do have a bit of this, see e.g.,
append_composite_type_field_aligned in gdbtypes.c. I don't think it is
fully generic yet, but rather just enough for a few arch-specific
types to work.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-11 2:59 David Miller
2011-10-11 9:30 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-10-11 16:18 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-11 16:48 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-11 19:12 ` David Miller
2011-10-11 19:20 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-10-11 19:22 ` David Miller
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