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Re: [patch] fix exp/12117


>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Doug> a) it seems like it's not just c/v, e.g., it's also the address space
Doug> [and perhaps here's a case where there are more bugs in this area :-)]

Tom> Yeah.  Actually, this one seems like it could cause real problems
Tom> somewhere.

Jan> I may see it too naively but isn't the attached patch OK?  I see no
Jan> instance flags or objfile ownership problem there.

Sorry, all I meant here is that stripping the address space qualifiers
in check_typedef is likely to be a source of bugs, because gdb calls
check_typedef all over the place, and presumably these bits translate
into some important target-specific difference in how memory is
accessed.

Tom


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