From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] Use our builtin type when evaluating conditional expressions
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tz5rlxry.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090313012134.GA11284@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Thu\, 12 Mar 2009 18\:21\:34 -0700")
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
Joel> (gdb) p null /= null
Jerome> The problem comes from the fact that GDB casts "null /= null"
Jerome> into the language boolean type (i.e. "standard.boolean"). And
Jerome> it lookups the boolean type into the debug info of the
Jerome> application. As type boolean is defined in every compilation
Jerome> unit, every psymtabs matchs; as a consequence, all the
Jerome> corresponding symtabs are built. This roughly means that the
Jerome> debugger loads every symbols when evaluating a conditional
Jerome> expression.
I'm curious whether this will be a problem for any language defining
bool_type_symbol. If so, perhaps a language-neutral fix could be
found. If not, what is it that makes this specific to Ada?
Tom
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2009-03-13 1:35 Joel Brobecker
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