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Re: Suggestion: Detect inconsistent structure definitions
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:07:08PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> ... When do we have enough information to know that two references
> are 'supposed' to be of the same type, rather than an
> implementation-private type? And in stabs, at least, no debug
> information appears to be emitted for 'extern' statements, so we
> don't know if a file referenced the type it had a different
> definition of or not.
I would argue that this situation is rare, and that most programmers
are unlikely to think of incompatible structure definitions as the
cause of a bug. Therefore, how about a warning issued by default when
the object file is read, but with a way to shut it up per-structure in
.gdbinit?
> Please file a GNATS PR so that this idea doesn't get forgotten.
Done, #420.
zw