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Re: c++/1063: ptype C prints too much or too little when C is a templated class
- From: David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 26 Feb 2003 20:18:01 -0000
- Subject: Re: c++/1063: ptype C prints too much or too little when C is a templated class
- Reply-to: David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>
The following reply was made to PR c++/1063; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>
To: GNATS Filer <gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com>
Cc:
Subject: Re: c++/1063: ptype C prints too much or too little when C is a templated class
Date: 26 Feb 2003 12:14:31 -0800
After discussing this with Daniel Jacobowitz, the reasonable behavior
for 'ptype C' when C is the name of a template class, is to complain
about the absence of a symbol named 'C'. Neither stabs nor DWARF-2 is
capable of representing more information than that (though apparently
HP has a debugging format that does, hence the presence of a test
regarding this in the test suite).
The reason why sometimes GDB prints out the type for C<int> instead is
because the DWARF-2 for C<int> contains a typedef for C, and GDB has
bugs regarding nested types. (C.f. PR gdb/57, for example.) So I'm
closing this bug report.