Merge C++ conversion into trunk (0/6 - Overview)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Gaby" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
>
> Tom> I asked Keith to resurrect his patch for this.
>
> Gaby> Since people are concerned about typing rules, would it
> Gaby> be an option for GDB to allow people to input pointer
> Gaby> literals with the "p" suffix (or "0p" prefix instead of "0x")?
>
> I think on the whole I'd rather have one extension instead of two.

That is a fair point :-)

>
> It seems to me that the above would still require extensions in the
> overloading code, to deal with conversions from void*; or perhaps some
> magic pointer type.
>
> What I think Keith is going to do is take his patch, change it so that
> int->pointer conversions (if the int != 0) are given a different badness
> from other conversions (meaning that, in theory, this should only be
> chosen as a last resort, and shouldn't interfere with ordinary uses),
> and finally add a parameter so that the feature can be disabled.
>
> I hope this will be acceptable all around.

OK, that sounds reasonable.

Thanks!

-- Gaby