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Re: Add -var-info-path-expression command
- From: Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs dot msu dot su>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:44:36 +0400
- Subject: Re: Add -var-info-path-expression command
- References: <dvehar$icf$1@sea.gmane.org> <e0t6qq$700$2@sea.gmane.org> <20060404132621.GA380@nevyn.them.org>
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 17:26, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:22:02AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Any comments on this yet? I believe we've discussed the rationale for
> > -var-info-path-expression command in the main list, and agreed that it's
> > necessary.
>
> Yes, I think we've agreed on that.
>
> It would be nice if there were test cases and documentation to go with
> this.
Is this a hard requirement?
> I've been putting off looking at this patch, because (A) I had a whole
> lot of other patches to review, and (B) it's huge and gnarly. I am not
> really sure that Apple took the right approach with C++ classes and
> run-time type information. Maybe they did, but it's not at all
> obvious.
FWIW, I'm not 100% understand what they did, but this does not matter. My
patch does some surgery to grab only -var-info-path-expression, and no
type/RTTI related changes.
- Volodya