From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable ptype/o for dynamic types
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:32:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb318ac2-08f1-29e3-6ebb-816fa0745f6d@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230111184237.2917382-1-tromey@adacore.com>
On 1/11/23 13:42, Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches wrote:
> A user pointed out that "ptype/o" of a certain Ada type -- while in C
> mode -- caused gdb to crash.
>
> The bug here is that dynamic types can't really be printed this way.
> This patch avoids the bug by disabling the "/o" feature in this case.
>
> Note that using "ptype/o" in this way makes sense for the time being,
> because the Ada code doesn't support the "/o" feature (yet); and in
> any case gdb should not crash.
LGTM:
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Simon
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