Re: [PATCH v2] Do not classify C struct members as a filename

[Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>]

On 2018-01-24 11:51, Leszek Swirski via gdb-patches wrote:
> There is existing logic in C/C++ expression parsing to avoid 
> classifying
> names as a filename when they are a field on the this object. This
> change extends this logic to also avoid classifying names after a
> struct-op (-> or .) as a filename, which otherwise causes a syntax
> error.
>
> Thus, it is now possible in the file
>
>     #include <map>
>     struct D {
>         void map();
>     }
>     D d;
>
> to call
>
>     (gdb) print d.map()
>
> where previously this would have been a syntax error.
>
> Tested on gdb.cp/*.exp

Hi Leszek,

I was able to reproduce the problem and confirmed that the patch fixes 
it.  I'm not very strong in the lexing/parsing area, but the change in 
c-exp.y makes sense to me.  I'd like to give others a chance to comment, 
so let's wait a few days.  If nobody answer, we can merge it.  One nit, 
since we are now using C++, can you use bool instead of int?  It won't 
match the old surrounding code, but that's a good reason to modernize 
the existing code later :).

Do you know if we have a test for the same thing, but with the "this" 
pointer (which was already worked before this patch)?  If not, it would 
be nice to add it to the test as well.  You could add a call to 
D::includefile and continue/break there.  From there, you could test 
calling this->includefile().

Simon