From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Daniel Jacobowitz'" <drow@false.org>,
"'Anitha Boyapati'" <anithab@sankhya.com>
Cc: <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: RE: conditional breakpoints for strings
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <026f01c81649$e2cdc920$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071024123559.GA21751@caradoc.them.org>
On 24 October 2007 13:36, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> This is quite interesting. Maybe I would just look into its internals.
>> Generally speaking, why is this char*->string so hard ?
>
> Two parts. One is that GDB does not know how to construct new
> objects. The other is that figuring out which constructors or
> operators to call is complicated; do you convert std::string to
> char * or char * to std::string, for instance. The C++ language
> standard has pages and pages of rules for this sort of thing.
We probably want to get the compiler to do it for us then. LTO might well
make this almost trivial, when it's ready.
cheers,
DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 6:51 Anitha Boyapati
2007-10-24 11:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-24 12:22 ` Anitha Boyapati
2007-10-24 12:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-24 13:05 ` Anitha Boyapati
2007-10-24 14:26 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2007-10-24 14:35 ` 'Daniel Jacobowitz'
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