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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC]: Document patch for F90 derived type support
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uek1m3gzo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602282126040.9196@localhost.localdomain> (message 	from Wu Zhou on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:51:24 -0500 (EST))

> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:51:24 -0500 (EST)
> From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
> cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> I did some comparison between g77 and gfortran.  In the aspect of the 
> compiler-generated DW_TAG_base_type, g77 uses "byte", "word" and "integer" 
> for "integer*1", "integer*2" and "integer*4" respectively.  And gfortran 
> seems to adopt a new mechanism, it uses "int1", "int2" and "int4" 
> respectively.  So it might also make some sense.  At lease the debugger 
> user can guess the meaning from these words.  :-) 

So you now think that it is not a good idea to display "integer*4"
instead of "int4"?  I thought you previously agreed with me that the
former was better, from the user point of view.

GDB is a debugger.  If it were a program to display DWARF-2 debug
info, then it should have displayed exactly what is written in there.
But as a debugger, it should display something that is sensible to the
user of a debugger, i.e. it needs to speak the programming language of
the source, not DWARF.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-01  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-24  8:13 Wu Zhou
2006-02-24  8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-27  5:59   ` Wu Zhou
2006-02-28  6:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-28 15:05       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-28 20:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-01  2:51           ` Wu Zhou
2006-03-01  4:32             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-01  4:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-01  5:05                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-01 19:02                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-01 19:38                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-02  2:32                       ` Wu Zhou
2006-03-02  4:36                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-02  4:40                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-03  9:09                             ` Wu Zhou
2006-03-02  4:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-02  4:27                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-01  4:51             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-03-02  2:43               ` Wu Zhou
2006-03-02  3:22                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-02  4:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-02  4:37                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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