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Re: [commit/Ada] Add handling of "ptype TYPE_NAME.FIELD0.[...].FIELDN" expressions


> > Actually, it isn't. But it seemed like a natural extension...
> 
> For C you can use this:
> 
> (gdb) ptype ((circle)0).pos

That's clever. Thinking more about it, I'm realizing that it might
not be as natural as I first thought it would be. The fact is that
I did use it without really thinking about it a couple of times,
but it's as easy to do: ptype circle, see what the type of pos is,
then do ptype of that type, etc.

IIRC, the extension was requested by a customer, so we (AdaCore)
cannot remove it from our sources.  But we can certainly remove it
from the FSF tree if we want to.  At this point, I think it's
harmless, so I'm inclined to leave it for now.  Comments welcome.

-- 
Joel


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