From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14200 invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2008 18:04:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 14189 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jul 2008 18:04:25 -0000 X-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 mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:04:07 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6EI41NW005941; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:04:01 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6EI41HZ010447; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:04:01 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-12-60.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.12.60]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6EI40vU007590; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:04:01 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2CB6C508080; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:04:00 -0600 (MDT) To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , Frysk List Subject: Re: Roadmap beginnings References: <20080711215243.GA30836@caradoc.them.org> <20080714173355.GA9326@caradoc.them.org> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: Tom Tromey X-Attribution: Tom Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20080714173355.GA9326@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Mon\, 14 Jul 2008 13\:33\:55 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact frysk-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q3/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: Ian> I don't know if this counts as "expression parsing," but the most Ian> obvious problems that I encounter are the difficulties in working with Ian> STL objects. Given "std::vector v", I can't do "print v[0]". Ian> Given "std::vector::iterator p", I can't do "print *p". That is Ian> minimal required functionality for good C++ debugging. This needs to Ian> work smoothly for STL types and for user defined types. Daniel> Right. This is not the expression parsing quagmire - it's definitely Daniel> bugs that need to be fixed, but the solutions are (should be) pretty Daniel> simple. I thought operator overloading did not work, but a simple test case shows that it actually does. And, I can at least print elements of a std::vector using "p v[3]", and "p *it" works for an iterator of this vector. Hmm. This is much better than I remember. Tom