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Re: Stabs: constant string, constant boolean


On 26 Jan 2004, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> Looking at the code, I see that gdb only supports the 'r', 'i', and
> 'e' types.  The 'b', 'c', 's', and 'S' types are documented, but not
> supported.
>
> I note this in the docs:
>
>     The boolean, character, string, and set constants are not
>     supported by GDB 4.9, but it ignores them.
>
> This is not entirely unreasonable, as the 'b', 'c', 's', and 'S' types
> are short on type information.  I think it would normally be better to
> use 'e' instead of 'b' or 'c'.  I suppose that 's' and 'S' aren't seen
> as an issue since they won't arise in C.

Thanks for the info, even though that is pretty bad news :(
Constant sets & strings do exist in Pascal, i.e.:

const str1='blablabla';
      set1=['b','l','a'];

I know our former team member Pierre Muller contributed some patches to
add Pascal support to gdb, but apparently not to support these...
Alas, Pierre has stopped with Free Pascal development; I'm currently
trying to give some life-support to the debug-info generation he wrote.

Greetings,

Daniël


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