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Re: Some Python ideas, looking for feedback


On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:37:10 +0100
Andrew Oakley <andrew@ado.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> What you are looking for is (for some reason) stored in bitpos.  I
> can't actually find any documentation for this :(.

Perhaps we should fix that:

Document gdb.Value field attribute "bitpos" for enums.

---

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 6e7bf52..c82173b 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -21575,7 +21575,8 @@ Each field is an object, with some pre-defined
attributes: @item bitpos
 This attribute is not available for @code{static} fields (as in
 C@t{++} or Java).  For non-@code{static} fields, the value is the bit
-position of the field.
+position of the field.  For @code{enum} fields, the value is the
enumeration +member's integer representation.

 @item name
 The name of the field, or @code{None} for anonymous fields.



-- 
Andrew Oakley


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