Re: RFC: partially fix empty DW_OP_piece

[Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:39:06 +0200, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> Jan> OK, that probably means there really must remain a way to convert
> Jan> `inferior dependent struct value' into an `inferior independent
> Jan> struct value'.
> 
> Yeah, at least as far as the bounds are concerned.  IMO.
> 
> The current gdb model is sort of mixed.  A struct value is a snapshot of
> some bit of state.  But, when printing a value, we might refer to other
> state in the target.  For example:
> 
>     struct x { char *name; };

Understood but I find it more wrong in (plain) C as it has no `string' type.

The same problem happens for other data types being PythonPrettyPrinted.


Thanks,
Jan