Re: c++ debugging hosed

Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-27T01:19:04Z

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:53:24PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> Then looking above it at vb_match.
>
> It's, in fact, the most abi specific stuff still left for C++.
>
>
> It happens to basically work for non-virtual classes, but it couldn't
> possibly work for virtual baseclasses (IE even if you pulled some magic in gcc to make
> it still output the things vb_match was looking for, it wouldn't work
> anyway.).
>
>
> baseclass offset finding is a fundamental piece of C++ support in gdb.
> It's required for printing things, calling methods, etc.

Yes. But not, most of the time, through this function.

I agree that it needs to be fixed. I'll be back here in a few days, I
expect.

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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