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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
Cc: "'Jan Kratochvil'" <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	       <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] PR 11530: Fix and test case
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 17:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sk63fvxd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28104.8831450336$1273095904@news.gmane.org> (Pierre Muller's	message of "Wed, 5 May 2010 23:44:47 +0200")

>>>>> "Pierre" == Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> writes:

%om> That is interesting.  Why does it work in one case but not the other?

Pierre>   for the first test 'p a.i'
Pierre> gdb calls search_struct_field,
Pierre> which has already some code (around line 1842)
Pierre> to cope for unnamed fields.
Pierre>   There was no equivalent in the lookup_struct_elt_type
Pierre> function.

Thanks.

Pierre>   By the way, the search_struct_field function
Pierre> also allows a union called "else" to be searched.
Pierre> Should this also be inserted into lookup_struct_elt_type
Pierre> or is this only a left over from Chill language?

I was not even aware of this case.  I have no idea what it is for.
I suppose that's the danger of putting language-specific code into a
generic function...

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-07 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-29 21:50 Pierre Muller
2010-04-30  8:20 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-04-30 11:08   ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-04-30 13:12   ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]   ` <15700.946111656$1272633144@news.gmane.org>
2010-04-30 17:29     ` Tom Tromey
2010-05-05 21:44       ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]       ` <28104.8831450336$1273095904@news.gmane.org>
2010-05-07 17:45         ` Tom Tromey [this message]
     [not found] <36245.8778698512$1272577829@news.gmane.org>
2010-04-30 17:26 ` Tom Tromey
2010-05-05 22:11   ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]   ` <1723.54181199825$1273097500@news.gmane.org>
2010-05-07 17:45     ` Tom Tromey

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