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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8.2+trunk 0/2] two small rust fixes
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180831153147.GB5568@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180831145302.14493-1-tom@tromey.com>

Hi Tom,

> This series fixes a couple of small bugs I noticed while testing gdb
> against a version of the Rust compiler that emits DW_TAG_variant_part.
> See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32920 for details of that.
> 
> While doing this I found a couple of bugs.  I'd like to put these on
> the 8.2 branch, because all the DW_TAG_variant_part stuff was slated
> for 8.2 and this gdb release is timely considering when the Rust
> compiler patch will land.
> 
> The first patch is obvious and just a test case thinko.
> 
> The second patch changes how DW_TAG_variant_part is handled in the
> DWARF reader.  I think this is reasonably safe as it is clearly
> targeted at just this tag, which currently is only really supported
> for Rust (Gnat can emit DW_TAG_variant_part with a special flag but
> this is not common and the gdb Ada support for this has not been
> implemented).
> 
> Let me know what you think.

No real comment on the first patch, as I don't know rust, but
the second one looks reasonable, for both master and 8.2.

Thanks!
-- 
Joel

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-31 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-31 14:53 Tom Tromey
2018-08-31 14:53 ` [PATCH 8.2+trunk 2/2] Set TYPE_LENGTH on a variant part Tom Tromey
2018-08-31 14:53 ` [PATCH 8.2+trunk 1/2] Fix a small bug in gdb.rust/simple.rs Tom Tromey
2018-08-31 15:31 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]

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