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From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
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Hi,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> It is a needless violation of C++ resolving rules.

It's not needless as the examples here show.  gdb is about helping people 
debug their stuff, not about language lawyering.

> There are various easy way how to get it working (in .gdbinit or 
> cc1-gdb.gdb define GDB function, define macro in GDB, use GDB python 
> pretty printer instead (possibly even calling GCC inferior function) 

We should define gdb macros for every not-overloaded function (which are 
_all_ GCC functions currently)?  Doesn't scale.


Ciao,
Michael.