FTR: this GDB patch is AdaCore-local (R907-036: do not suppress all symbols in the STRUCT_DOMAIN)

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Sun Nov 1 06:04:49 GMT 2020


And this is, children, the reason why one should never work on weekends :-(.

I apologize for the noise.

> Just recording the fact that the following patch...
> 
>     | commit 0bf64e2236bd6a2aacb978e5a7fa0a5b43567665
>     | Subject: (Ada) do not suppress all symbols in the STRUCT_DOMAIN
>     | Author:  Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>     | Date:    2018-09-25 14:52:01 -0700
>     | Subject: (Ada) do not suppress all symbols in the STRUCT_DOMAIN
> 
> cannot be contributed upstream, because it touches a function
> (ada_suppress_symbol_printing) which is specific to the AdaCore
> version of GDB.
> 
> This is from memory, but I believe we tried to contribute this function
> (combined with its companion function called is_suppressed_name), and
> got feedback that we should be doing it differently, relying on DWARF
> rather than GNAT encodings to determine whether symbols should be
> displayed or not.
> 
> I will annotate the commit accordingly.

-- 
Joel


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