From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ulk74v0gp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080104151340.GC3758@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Fri, 4 Jan 2008 07:13:40 -0800)
> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 07:13:40 -0800
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> The subject says it all. Before the patch, you could do:
>
> (gdb) ptype type_name
>
> But if you wanted to get the type of one field inside that type,
> you would hit a limitation:
>
> (gdb) ptype circle.pos
> Invalid attempt to select from type: "circle.pos".
>
> The attached patch enhances the debugger to able to do the above.
>
> 2008-01-04 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> * ada-exp.y (chop_separator): New function.
> (write_selectors): Rewrite to re-use chop_separator.
> (ada_nget_field_index, get_symbol_field_type): New functions.
> (write_var_or_type): Add support for "ptype TYPENAME.FIELD"
> expressions.
Is this an Ada-only problem? If not, why are we fixing it only for
Ada?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-04 15:14 Joel Brobecker
2008-01-05 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-01-05 14:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-05 18:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-06 4:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-06 9:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-07 14:48 ` Joel Brobecker
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