From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Fix most -fgnat-encodings=minimal failures
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 08:49:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnz1jf61.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200930200600.1207702-1-tromey@adacore.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:05:51 -0600")
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> writes:
Tom> GNAT has two debuginfo modes -- the default, which is to emit "GNAT
Tom> encodings", and -fgnat-encodings=minimal, which emits something closer
Tom> to pure DWARF.
Tom> Historically gdb has only handled GNAT encodings. This patch series
Tom> brings gdb most of the way to handling -fgnat-encodings=minimal. The
Tom> remaining issues are going to require some patches to GNAT and gdb; my
Tom> plan is to only land the gdb changes once the GNAT changes have gone
Tom> in.
Tom> Patches #2 - #9 were all reviewed internally by Joel. However, they
Tom> aren't all purely Ada-specific. (Patch #1 is new, written while I was
Tom> prepping this series -- see the comments there.)
Tom> For gdb itself, the benefit of these changes is that with
Tom> minimal-encodings, the Ada type system works more like the rest of
Tom> gdb. For users the main benefit is that the Python API works more
Tom> nicely.
I'm checking these in now.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-04 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 20:05 Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 1/9] Avoid crash in ada-lang.c:to_fixed_array_type Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/9] Fix decoding of multi-dimensional constrained packed arrays Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/9] Synthesize array descriptors with -fgnat-encodings=minimal Tom Tromey
2020-11-06 12:08 ` Luis Machado
2020-11-06 17:55 ` Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 4/9] Reject slicing a packed array Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 5/9] Resolve dynamic type in ada_value_struct_elt Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] Fix bit strides for -fgnat-encodings=minimal Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] Only use stride for final element type Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] Use bit stride when taking slice of array Tom Tromey
2020-09-30 20:06 ` [PATCH 9/9] Recognize names of array types Tom Tromey
2020-11-04 15:49 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-11-04 16:33 ` [PATCH 0/9] Fix most -fgnat-encodings=minimal failures Tom de Vries
2020-11-04 17:20 ` Tom de Vries
2020-11-04 18:52 ` Tom Tromey
2020-11-04 19:54 ` Tom de Vries
2020-11-16 14:32 ` Tom de Vries
2020-11-16 14:01 ` [PATCH][gdb/testsuite] Fix minimal encodings KPASSes Tom de Vries
2020-11-23 19:10 ` [committed][gdb/testsuite] " Tom de Vries
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