Re: [PATH] Change is_pascal_string_type args

[Pierre Muller <muller at cerbere dot u-strasbg dot fr>]

At 19:58 02/05/2002 , Michael Snyder a écrit:
>Pierre Muller wrote:
> > 
> > The following patch is only to prepare for the
> > next patch for p-exp.y that will enhance the field
> > search for pascal expressions.
> > 
> > It adds a new argument that can contain
> > a pointer to the name of the field containing the
> > chars of the string.
> > If the type is a pascal string the retruned value is now
> > the char array field index plus one.
> > (to avoid a zero if some new pascal compiler
> > use the first field to contain the char array one day...)
>
>Pierre, aren't you the Pascal maintainer for gdb?
>Seems like you could be approving some of these changes
>yourself, since they affect only Pascal.

Of course, this are committed patches
I made a mistake on the title of that mail,
it should be [PATCH] of course.

The only thing that I did not commit yet is the 
big p-exp.y patch which I sent as a RFC.
This is mainly because I wanted to know the
comments of the other developppers, 
as the method that I used in p-exp.y to be
able to follow the current type of an expression
should be usable by other expression parser.

If we implement it for all languages,
then we should be able to get a completer that works correctly 
for all structure fields.

After applying this patch, my goal is to submit
a patch to completer.c and symtab.c
that will allow to complete
if 
X is a record variable of type
  TRECT = record
    real,imaginary : longint;
end;
in C 
     struct {
         int real, imaginary;
     } TRECT;
then

print X.R'Tab'
would expand to 
print X.REAL
(or more precisely to
X.Real for GPC compiled code and X.REAL for Freee Pascal related code).



Pierre Muller
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