Re: Types mangled when using "file -readnow "

Paul_Koning
2012-09-06T18:46:21Z

On Sep 6, 2012, at 12:16 PM, <Paul_Koning@Dell.com>
<Paul_Koning@Dell.com> wrote:

> I noticed a strange problem when doing some Python scripting in which I open the execfile with the "-readnow" switch: Some structures (C++ classes, actually) lose their fields when I do that.
>
> If I open the file without -readnow, and I do a "ptype", I see a base class, a data member, and a static method.
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> If I open the file with -readnow, ptype shows only the static method, and omits both the base class and the data member.
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> This is GDB 7.3.1, reading binaries produced by GCC 4.5.4 and Binutils 2.20.1. Is this a known problem? Fixed in a later release?
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> paul
>

After further investigation, this turns out to be due to incorrect debug data emitted by GCC 4.*. I'll report it there.

paul