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Re: c++ debugging hosed

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
Cc: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>,jason at redhat dot com, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:19:06 -0500
Subject: Re: c++ debugging hosed
References: <20011126183836.A9099@nevyn.them.org> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111261947250.20651-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:53:24PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> Then looking above it at vb_match.
> 
> It's, in fact, the most abi specific stuff still left for C++.
> 
> 
> It happens to basically work for non-virtual classes, but it couldn't
> possibly work for virtual baseclasses (IE even if you pulled some magic in gcc to make
> it still output the things vb_match was looking for, it wouldn't work
> anyway.).
> 
> 
> baseclass offset finding is a fundamental piece of C++ support in gdb.
> It's required for printing things, calling methods, etc.

Yes.  But not, most of the time, through this function.

I agree that it needs to be fixed.  I'll be back here in a few days, I
expect.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

References:
- Re: c++ debugging hosed
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: c++ debugging hosed
  - From: Daniel Berlin

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