From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14318 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2009 18:03:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 14200 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2009 18:03:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.redhat.com (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:03:41 +0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3KI2w4e016438; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:02:58 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3KI2uoO017333; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:02:57 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-12-214.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.12.214]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3KI2t6O004430; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:02:56 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1A1AD37829A; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:02:55 -0600 (MDT) To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [Ada/dwarf] New DW_AT_GNAT_descriptive_type DWARF attribute... References: <20090417161934.GW7585@adacore.com> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:36:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20090417161934.GW7585@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Fri\, 17 Apr 2009 09\:19\:34 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2009-04/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Joel> But the reality is that we don't see this happening in the near Joel> future. As we've come to accept this fact, we at AdaCore think Joel> that it would be useful to others to be able to take advantage Joel> of this attribute. I think you should trust your judgment here; you're the expert in this area. Joel> The changes in GDB are relatively small, I think - at least in Joel> the DWARF reader part. We added a field in the gnat_specific part Joel> of struct type, and I can see how it could trigger some protests. Joel> But we can discuss the specifics of the patch if there are no Joel> objections to this new attribute. I don't see a gnat_specific part of struct type at all. Is this from an unsubmitted change? If struct type is a major space problem, we can counteract that by changing the type implementation. Jan sent some ideas about this to the gdb-patches list a while ago. I'm not sure this is all that big an issue, though I am also not completely certain. Numbers would help. Tom