Re: First release candidate for GDB 6.4 available

[Kunal Parmar <kunal dot parmar at codito dot com>]

Wu Zhou wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:53:50AM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
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> > > > ...
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > FAIL: gdb.cp/anon-union.exp: print w 1
> > > > > FAIL: gdb.cp/anon-union.exp: print z 1
> > > > > FAIL: gdb.cp/anon-union.exp: print w 2
> > > > > FAIL: gdb.cp/anon-union.exp: print z 2
> > > > > FAIL: gdb.cp/anon-union.exp: print w 3
> > > > > FAIL: gdb.cp/anon-union.exp: print z 3
> > > > >          
> > > I guess that GDB don't know how to handle anonymous union yet.  I ever saw 
> > > these failures in a few platform.  And also see them ok on others.  The 
> > > difference I find is that some version of gcc handle the anonymous union 
> > > members as normal variables, others don't. 
> > >      
> > I believe this was a bug in GCC 4.x, very recently fixed in CVS.
> >    
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> Sorry.  What is a bug, handle the anonymous union as normal variable, or 
> don't?
>
> Regards
> - Wu Zhou
>
>  
The problem was that the dwarf info generated was incorrect.
It has been fixed in GCC 4.x

Regards,
Kunal Parmar.