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Re: [PATCH] Fix jit.exp on most 32-bit targets.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:20:24 -0600
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix jit.exp on most 32-bit targets.
References: <20111010.225847.435074482632472630.davem@davemloft.net> <m3pqi3a4fs.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20111011.151141.2005206627187628853.davem@davemloft.net>

>>>>> "David" == David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

David> We're going to have to, at some point, have gdb be able to properly
David> lay out structures, unions, and other data structures, as well as do
David> the work of passing arguments and receiving return values,
David> generically.  And this is a sort-of micro-step in that direction.

Yeah, it would be useful to be able to create structure types at
runtime.

Actually, we do have a bit of this, see e.g.,
append_composite_type_field_aligned in gdbtypes.c.  I don't think it is
fully generic yet, but rather just enough for a few arch-specific
types to work.

Tom

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