Re: gdb-internal: determining the type of a variable

[Roul Oldenburger <oldenburger dot roul at rheinmetall-de dot com>]

Hi Jim,

you are right, thanks. Probably I didn't look at all type descriptions 
and only greped for the structure desriptions.

Roul

Jim Blandy wrote:
> Roul Oldenburger <oldenburger.roul@rheinmetall-de.com> writes:
>
>
> > Thanks for your effort giving me your explanation!
> >
> > Looking at the stabs information from our executables which are linked
> > > From several o-files I find FILENUM being 0 for all typedescriptions.
> > Probably I could distinguish between the duplicate descriptions if
> > FILNUM would differ. Unfortunately I don't know why it is 0 all the
> > way?
>
>
> Are you sure?  This is the kind of thing I see.  The file numbers of
> the stabs for built-in types are all zero, but when you get to things
> like size_t, defined in stddef.h, the file numbers are larger.