"Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:
Volodya> I have run into a case when it's desirable that all
Volodya> modifications of a certain structure field in GDB codebase go
Volodya> via function that can enforce necessary invariants.
Volodya> At the moment, there are at least 3 places that directly assign
Volodya> a value to that field, and while I can convert them easily,
Volodya> nothing will prevent a direct assignment to appear in future.
In the past somebody solved this same problem for struct value by
putting the struct definition into value.c and adding a bunch of
accessors.
I'm lukewarm about this technique, but it can be made to work.
Daniel's suggested approach would also be fine with me.