Re: [Ada/DWARF] printing array of variant records

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

> This patch series aims at enhancing GDB when printing arrays of
> records whose contents and size is dynamic, in the case where
> we're relying purely on standard DWARF info (no GNAT encodings).
> 
> The patch series has been tested on x86_64-linux using the FSF
> testsuite, as well as a number of other platforms (Solaris, Windows,
> crosses) using AdaCore's testsuite.
> 
> Most patches are small fixes and enhancements. Patch #2 (Add valaddr
> support in dynamic property resolution) is interesting, thought,
> as it is one answer to a question I asked at the very beginning
> when we started reviewing patches introducing the concept of dynamic
> type resolution: what if the data is not stored in inferior memory?
> As it turns out, this patch series encounters one such case, because
> we're dealing with data that is not necessarily byte-aligned. And
> AdaCore also encountered another situation, with a function returning
> a reference to a dynamic object, with that reference being returned
> by register; hence no address either. Patch #2 enhances our framework
> by using the contents-and-address idea.
> 
> If there are no objections, I'd like to commit the patch series
> sometime early next week.

FYI: I've retested the patch series on x86_64-linux, and just pushed it.

-- 
Joel