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Re: Ping: canonicalize type names on input / output
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:59:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: Ping: canonicalize type names on input / output
- References: <m38wmmn8xs.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:48:31PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I'd like to ping this patch of Daniel's:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-10/msg00510.html
>
> I didn't see any response to the content of this patch.
>
> I would like to put this in as a prerequisite for the Python
> pretty-printing support. Without this, it is difficult to manipulate
> some types by name, e.g.:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/archer/2008-q4/msg00219.html
>
> We've been using this on the Python branch, and a couple others, for a
> while without ill effects; though Jan did find a bug and supplied this
> additional fix:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/archer/2009-q1/msg00383.html
>
> If there are no comments I will check this in.
Please do, with Jan's fix. I wanted to add a NEWS entry, but Eli
suggested a more expansive one than I wrote at the time; that needs
doing too.
Thank you!
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery