From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12018 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2010 19:05:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 11899 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jun 2010 19:05:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD 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; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:05:40 +0000 Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o54J5cHu027651 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:05:38 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o54J5bkW029434; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:05:38 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (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 o54J5aFZ022466; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:05:37 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 83E6137897F; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:05:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: partially fix empty DW_OP_piece References: <20100514223521.GA3975@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20100602185354.GA11125@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20100603174558.GA22100@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:05:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100603174558.GA22100@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:45:58 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2010-06/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil writes: Tom> So, for VLA I would say that the bounds ought to be fixed at the time Tom> the snapshot is taken. I suppose this would mean introducing some copy Tom> of the type. Jan> That is interesting idea (and currently in the VLA patch it happens Jan> that way). Still it is probably really needed only for the GDB Jan> values history. Yeah, and Python. Jan> As we talked with Tom he has already the patch coded+working. I Jan> thought only a plan for his coding is being discussed now. Jan> Therefore leaving the VLA design decision for a later point Jan> unrelated to his current patch. Ok. I'm going to submit my patch in a minute. Tom