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Re: add set cp-abi command
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: jingham at apple dot com
- Cc: drow at mvista dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:20:06 +0300
- Subject: Re: add set cp-abi command
- References: <C31A558C-4CAE-11D6-B08E-000393540DDC@apple.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:14:13 -0700
> From: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
>
> > Please explain in a few words what "ABI" means; I don't think Joe Random
> > C++ User will necessarily know that. A list of possible values one can
> > use (in addition to "auto") is also something the manual should have.
>
> I not sure I agree with this. First off, this "set" section doesn't
> explain what other similarly obscure terms mean (like "set vtable").
> These are expert features, so if you need them presumably you know what
> they are.
Nevertheless, I think it doesn't hurt to say something like this:
Set the C@t{++} @dfn{ABI} (Application Binary Interface) that
@value{GDBN} will use to decode C@t{++} objects.
> Also, the available types are dynamically generated.
Does it mean we don't know at least some of the possible values in
advance? I'd be surprised.