From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Chris January <chris.january@allinea.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Variable Length Arrays (VLA) proposal
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 01:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130701015453.GB10319@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372434039.2950.12.camel@gumtree>
> Just to add another possibility, we implemented VLA for Fortran by
> wrapping read_var_value and then adding a call to f_fixup_value which
> 'fixed up' the type of the variable (filled in the array bounds, etc.)
> by modifying the original type. (It also auto-dereferences pointers).
One of the questions that need to be asked is whether it's OK to modify
the type in place like that. For Ada, we create new types with the
bounds fixed-up. I think you might run into problems with cached
values, such as the values accessible from the history (Eg: "print $2").
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-28 13:03 Agovic, Sanimir
2013-06-28 15:40 ` Chris January
2013-07-01 1:55 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2013-07-01 8:01 ` Chris January
2013-07-01 15:32 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2013-07-04 8:18 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2013-07-04 9:13 ` Chris January
2013-07-04 11:49 ` Agovic, Sanimir
2013-07-04 16:55 ` Chris January
2013-07-26 11:44 ` Agovic, Sanimir
[not found] ` <1372928011.2796.13.camel@gumtree>
2013-07-04 10:00 ` Chris January
2013-07-02 13:37 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-07-02 19:21 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-07-02 22:22 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-07-04 12:32 ` Keven Boell
2013-08-04 19:33 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-08-07 5:25 ` Keven Boell
2013-08-04 19:02 ` Jan Kratochvil
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