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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