[commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:13:40AM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The subject says it all. Before the patch, you could do:
> 
>    (gdb) ptype type_name
> 
> But if you wanted to get the type of one field inside that type,
> you would hit a limitation:
> 
>    (gdb) ptype circle.pos
>    Invalid attempt to select from type: "circle.pos".
> 
> The attached patch enhances the debugger to able to do the above.

Is this actually valid in Ada?  You can't do this in C, which is why
GDB doesn't handle it for ptype.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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