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To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
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Subject: Re: Another "ptype B" validity question
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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
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Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:


[...]

|   # gdb HEAD, gcc HEAD, binutils 2.13.1, stabs+
|   ptype class B
|   type = class B : public A {
|     public:
|       A;

[...]

| My questions are:
| 
| . What should gdb print for this ptype operation?
| 
| . If gdb does print the "A;" member, is that acceptable or not?
|   Note that this is a slightly different question!

I think the line 

    class B : public A 

saying that B inherits from A is self-explanatory and there is no need
to display A as a member-declaration -- it is not, and that is confusing.


[...]

|                       In this case, I think that most C++ programmers
| would understand the nature of the "A;" line,

Well, I find it very confusing -- it is too close to nested-type
declaration. 

-- Gaby