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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Detect inconsistent structure definitions
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020314191337.GF19703@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020313190708.B26841@nevyn.them.org>

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:07:08PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> ... When do we have enough information to know that two references
> are 'supposed' to be of the same type, rather than an
> implementation-private type?  And in stabs, at least, no debug
> information appears to be emitted for 'extern' statements, so we
> don't know if a file referenced the type it had a different
> definition of or not.

I would argue that this situation is rare, and that most programmers
are unlikely to think of incompatible structure definitions as the
cause of a bug.  Therefore, how about a warning issued by default when
the object file is read, but with a way to shut it up per-structure in
.gdbinit?

> Please file a GNATS PR so that this idea doesn't get forgotten.

Done, #420.

zw


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-14 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-13 10:22 Zack Weinberg
2002-03-13 10:40 ` Kris Warkentin
2002-03-13 16:02   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-14  5:14     ` Kris Warkentin
2002-03-13 16:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-14 11:13   ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2002-03-14 21:03     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-14 22:11       ` Andrew Cagney
     [not found] ` <mailpost.1016043761.7328@news-sj1-1>
2002-03-13 18:35   ` cgd

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