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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make range types inherit signed-ness from base type
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 21:59:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28055f84-c81a-9e13-2719-fe3aea8313ff@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200822210711.28361-1-tom@tromey.com>

On 2020-08-22 5:07 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
> I ran across this comment in valprint.c:
>
>       /* FIXME: create_static_range_type does not set the unsigned bit in a
>          range type (I think it probably should copy it from the target
>          type), so we won't print values which are too large to
>          fit in a signed integer correctly.  */
>
> It seems to me that a range type ought to inherit its signed-ness from
> the underlying type, so this patch implements this change, and removes
> the comment.  (It was also copied into m2-valprint.c.)
>
> I also remove the comment about handling ranges of enums, because I
> think that comment is incorrect.

This looks OK to me, although I have to admit I don't really understand
the impact.

Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-04  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-22 21:07 Tom Tromey
2020-10-04  1:59 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2020-10-17 17:42   ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-19 15:53     ` Tom Tromey

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