From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16332 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2011 19:20:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 16174 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Oct 2011 19:20:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:27 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9BJKQJr004340 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:20:26 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9BJKQsq014297; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:20:26 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9BJKOmq003911; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:20:25 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: David Miller Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix jit.exp on most 32-bit targets. References: <20111010.225847.435074482632472630.davem@davemloft.net> <20111011.151141.2005206627187628853.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20111011.151141.2005206627187628853.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:11:41 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2011-10/txt/msg00328.txt.bz2 >>>>> "David" == David Miller 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