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Re: GDB and typedefs

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
Cc: archer at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:55:22 -0500
Subject: Re: GDB and typedefs
References: <8f2776cb0902040829r18f47ed7lc8612721ce4441a8@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:29:25AM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> When the DWARF 2 reader processes a DW_TAG_typedef die, it creates a
> symbol whose name is the typedef name (jsval), but whose type is the
> definition type (jsword).  It will later create a typedef type named
> jsval, but that's not what gets associated with the jsval symbol.  I
> haven't written a patch for this, because I'm afraid it will change
> the behavior of commands like 'whatis' ('whatis jsval' does exactly
> one level of typedef expansion, which is kind of useful, and I bet the
> test suite knows this) and I don't have the time right now to fix that
> up as well.

FWIW, that does sound like the right place to change it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- GDB and typedefs
  - From: Jim Blandy

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