From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [Ada/DWARF] printing array of variant records
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 17:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150505175010.GB5186@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429631064-4196-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>
> This patch series aims at enhancing GDB when printing arrays of
> records whose contents and size is dynamic, in the case where
> we're relying purely on standard DWARF info (no GNAT encodings).
>
> The patch series has been tested on x86_64-linux using the FSF
> testsuite, as well as a number of other platforms (Solaris, Windows,
> crosses) using AdaCore's testsuite.
>
> Most patches are small fixes and enhancements. Patch #2 (Add valaddr
> support in dynamic property resolution) is interesting, thought,
> as it is one answer to a question I asked at the very beginning
> when we started reviewing patches introducing the concept of dynamic
> type resolution: what if the data is not stored in inferior memory?
> As it turns out, this patch series encounters one such case, because
> we're dealing with data that is not necessarily byte-aligned. And
> AdaCore also encountered another situation, with a function returning
> a reference to a dynamic object, with that reference being returned
> by register; hence no address either. Patch #2 enhances our framework
> by using the contents-and-address idea.
>
> If there are no objections, I'd like to commit the patch series
> sometime early next week.
FYI: I've retested the patch series on x86_64-linux, and just pushed it.
--
Joel
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-21 15:44 Joel Brobecker
2015-04-21 15:44 ` [FYI 6/6] testsuite/gdb.ada/var_rec_arr: New testcase Joel Brobecker
2015-04-21 15:44 ` [RFA/commit 1/6] preserve the bit stride when resolving an array type Joel Brobecker
2015-04-21 15:44 ` [FYI 3/6] [Ada] Resolve dynamic type before trying to print it Joel Brobecker
2015-04-21 15:44 ` [RFA/commit 2/6] Add valaddr support in dynamic property resolution Joel Brobecker
2015-04-21 15:44 ` [FYI 5/6] GDB crash trying to subscript array of variant record Joel Brobecker
2015-04-21 15:44 ` [FYI 4/6] [Ada] array of variant record subscripting Joel Brobecker
2015-05-05 17:50 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
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