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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?


  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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