Re: [RFA/stabs reader] Fix v3 duplicate constructors problem

Michael Snyder
2001-12-03T23:25:26Z

Jason Merrill wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>
> >> What does GDB actually use the member function information for? What
> >> impact would this change have, other than the output of ptype?
>
> > Right now, the big thing is probably member function calls. If the
> > constructor is called from GDB, we want to get the complete object
> > constructor. I'm not 100% sure this is even possible, though.
>
> You can't call a constructor directly in C++; no reason to allow it from
> GDB.

OTOH, there are a lot of things that you can do from GDB
that you cannot do programmatically. Accessing private data
would be an example. Since GDB can call any other function,
is there a strong reason why it should not be able to call
the constructors?

If constructors are a special case type of function which
GDB cannot call, we ought to document that fact.