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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: jagorak <jagorak@wp.pl>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Calling an Ada subprogram with complex parameters
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070319021557.GA26173@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1827236609.20070317231124@wp.pl>

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 11:11:24PM +0000, jagorak wrote:
> where  $myRec  is  a  convenience  variable  of  type  "Rec", but this
> wouldn't  work  either  since  convenience  variable  resides in
> gdb-specific memory  space, complex types seem to be passed by reference and myProc
> cannot access memory address of $myRec.

Actually, that's not true - convenience variables which have a
memory location are put into the target's memory.  Sometimes GDB
uses the stack, other times malloc is called under the hood.

> Does anyone have any idea how I can solve this problem?

Unfortunately not me - maybe Joel will have some helpful advice.  I
know less Ada than you do, I'm sure :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-17 23:11 jagorak
2007-03-18 17:10 ` jagorak
2007-03-19 16:35   ` Joel Brobecker
2007-03-19 18:46     ` Re[2]: " jagorak
2007-03-19  2:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-03-19 20:08   ` jagorak
2007-03-19 20:17     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-03-19 20:40       ` Re[2]: " jagorak

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