Re: [RFA] Fix regexp problem with "operator* etc.

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>]

I committed this change, without Michael Chastain's worthy suggestion
regarding the size of the alloca.  Will submit that separately.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> 
> cplusfuncs.exp:
>   In my maintainer area.
>   Approved unconditionally.
>   No matter what gdb does, the test script should do the right thing.
> 
> alloca change:
>   Outside my maintainer area.
>   Recommended for rework.
> 
>   I think the size is long enough, but the proof of correctness is
>   too delicate.  There is no space explicitly allocated for the final
>   null, so the alloca is correct only because it occurs in a context
>   where at least one character is being deleted.  This also relies on
>   some character-class tests being the same in this function and
>   in operator_chars.   How about something stupidly correct:
> 
>     alloca (8 + fix + strlen(opname) + 1)
> 
> operator_chars change:
>   Outside my maintainer area.
>   Proofread and tested, works for me.
>   Recommended for approval.
> 
> doc/gdb.texinfo:
>   Outside my maintainer area.
> 
>   Recommend add a sentence or two to "@kindex info functions" about functions
>   like "operator[]" and "operator const char *" and how to get at them with
>   "info func operator\[\]" and "info func operator const char \*".
> 
>   Since there is no way at all to type these names in gdb right now,
>   the code can be fixed before the doc is dixed.
> 
> I did my testing on native i686-pc-linux-gnu with gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 3.0.2.
> 
> Michael C