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Re: [commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:57:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions
- References: <20080104151340.GC3758@adacore.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 07:13:40 -0800
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> The subject says it all. Before the patch, you could do:
>
> (gdb) ptype type_name
>
> But if you wanted to get the type of one field inside that type,
> you would hit a limitation:
>
> (gdb) ptype circle.pos
> Invalid attempt to select from type: "circle.pos".
>
> The attached patch enhances the debugger to able to do the above.
>
> 2008-01-04 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> * ada-exp.y (chop_separator): New function.
> (write_selectors): Rewrite to re-use chop_separator.
> (ada_nget_field_index, get_symbol_field_type): New functions.
> (write_var_or_type): Add support for "ptype TYPENAME.FIELD"
> expressions.
Is this an Ada-only problem? If not, why are we fixing it only for
Ada?