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From: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@new-tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Douglas Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: print/x on references
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710181910.l9IJAkHs008578@new-tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:45:14 -0700.              <e394668d0710181045y4eed3b77y16b1c42b96eea974@mail.gmail.com>


 > > > To find the address of the pointer to the object I was thinking "p
 > > > &(&x)"...

 > > That is such a horrible abuse of C++ that I didn't even think to try
 > > it....
 > 
 > I think the expression evaluator should work as the language does (as
 > much as possible).  And once it does that then thought is given to
 > whatever extensions are needed to accomplish things not possible with
 > the language syntax.
 > e.g. "p cut-n-pasted-expression-from-source" should "just work" (to
 > some reasonable extent).

Or, to put it rhetorically, it is fitting that &(&x) (for x of type
Glorp&) is a horrible abuse of C++, since in C++ the type Glorp&* does
not exist!

PNH

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-18 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18  9:37 Paul Hilfinger
2007-10-18 11:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-18 16:05   ` Douglas Evans
2007-10-18 16:30     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-18 17:03       ` Douglas Evans
2007-10-18 17:10         ` Douglas Evans
2007-10-18 17:11         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-18 17:45           ` Douglas Evans
2007-10-18 19:10             ` Paul Hilfinger [this message]
2007-10-18 19:21             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-18 19:30               ` Paul Hilfinger
2007-10-18 19:39                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-19 21:40               ` Jim Blandy
2007-10-19 22:00                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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