From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
Cc: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, jason@redhat.com, libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: c++ debugging hosed
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:19:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg00271.html
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:53:24PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> Then looking above it at vb_match.
> 
> It's, in fact, the most abi specific stuff still left for C++.
> 
> 
> It happens to basically work for non-virtual classes, but it couldn't
> possibly work for virtual baseclasses (IE even if you pulled some magic in gcc to make
> it still output the things vb_match was looking for, it wouldn't work
> anyway.).
> 
> 
> baseclass offset finding is a fundamental piece of C++ support in gdb.
> It's required for printing things, calling methods, etc.

Yes.  But not, most of the time, through this function.

I agree that it needs to be fixed.  I'll be back here in a few days, I
expect.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer