Re: c++/1417: crash when printing variables

[David Carlton <carlton at kealia dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR c++/1417; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: GNATS Filer <gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: c++/1417: crash when printing variables
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:15:15 -0700

 On 10 Oct 2003 17:58:00 -0000, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
  
 >  No, I won't.  It's a bit more complicated than I had hoped.
 >  Hopefully for GDB 6.1 we'll have made progress in handling this
 >  thoroughly.  David Carlton was doing some work in this area.
 
 I tried out the test case on my branch.  With stock GCC, it loops;
 with a GCC that's patched to generate namespace info, it prints out
 <incomplete type>.  (Which is interesting, given that the program in
 question doesn't explicitly use namespaces, but that's a separate
 issue.)
 
 It's probably the case that, when looking up a nested type A::B, my
 branch works well if B really is defined in A, but gets it wrong if B
 is defined in a superclass of A.  Hmm.  We'll certainly want to look
 at this once my branch hits mainline (or before, if I have the time).
 (Side note to Daniel: for various deadline reasons, it's unlikely that
 I'll have time to generate the nested types patch this month; it might
 happen, but if not I'll make it a high priority at the beginning of
 November.)
 
 Thanks for the test case; it will be useful.