From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29778 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2006 23:52:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 29770 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Nov 2006 23:52:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:52:54 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GoqHI-0005e1-Mu; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:52:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:52:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: Gary Funck , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: how to support C type qualifiers applied to arrays? Message-ID: <20061127235248.GA21646@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , Gary Funck , gdb@sourceware.org References: <200611272217.kARMHtw3023324@intrepid.intrepid.com> <20061127230948.GA19798@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00189.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:31:12PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote: > If this were a less obscure feature, then I could see GDB deliberately > misreading the DWARF to accomodate GCC. But in this case, it doesn't > seem like a show-stopper; wouldn't it be better to just report the GCC > bug and let GDB continue to interpret DWARF as written? These kludges > come back to haunt us. I gather Gary is working with a modified GCC > anyway, so it shouldn't be hard for him to fix his compiler. (If > that's not so, Gary, please set me straight.) I've no particular preference. Thanks for the PR reference, Joseph. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery