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From: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Integrate GNU poke in GDB
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 12:14:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dk4mf6t.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210512085256.GV6612@embecosm.com> (Andrew Burgess's message of "Wed, 12 May 2021 09:52:56 +0100")


>> If you map a BTF_Type from GDB, it will check the integrity (poke also
>> support mapping in non-strict mode) and also will build the structure
>> based on the very contents.  GDB simply can't do the same thing based on
>> the "equivalent" collection of decoupled C types, which are really not
>> equivalent at all.
>
> Thanks for this explanation.  For me, personally, I think the manual
> entry would be much more powerful if something like the above was
> included.  I feel it really gives an idea for the sort of thing that
> can be achieved with poke.

Ok I am adding a section to poke.texi with an introduction.
Thanks for the feedback!

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-12 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-10 15:10 [PATCH 0/1] " Jose E. Marchesi
2021-05-10 15:10 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Jose E. Marchesi
2021-05-10 16:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-10 18:49     ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-05-10 18:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11  7:33   ` Andrew Burgess
2021-05-11 13:07     ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-05-12  8:52       ` Andrew Burgess
2021-05-12 10:14         ` Jose E. Marchesi [this message]
2021-05-13 16:59   ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-10 18:39 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Simon Marchi
2021-05-10 20:07   ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-05-11  6:25     ` Andrew Burgess
2021-05-13 17:04   ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-11 18:56 ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-12  8:06   ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-05-13 15:52     ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-14 20:52       ` Jose E. Marchesi

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