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Re: C++ debugging progress
- From: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:43:43 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: C++ debugging progress
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> For the curious, I've gotten all but two of the virtual function tests to
> pass in virtfuncs.exp. I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with one of the
> others, and the other goes up as far as the parser (pEe->D::fd() yields
> "attempt to take address of value not in memory"). There's also a bunch of
> namespace problems, of course.
>
> I'll not be posting the patches for another day or two. The way I do it now
> is grossly inefficient; I look through RTTI at every lookup instead of once
> per type. It also depends on presence of RTTI. There's not much I can do
> about that - or rather, I could, but AFAICT it would require walking the
> inheritance graph in the proper order and I don't have the machinery to do
> that easily. I'm not heartbroken that we need RTTI for debugging though.
Nor am I.
However:
* To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
* Subject: Re: Using typeinfo functions to determine RTTI
* From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
* Date: 03 May 2000 09:41:50 -0600
* Newsgroups: cygnus.patches.gdb
* Organization: Cygnus Solutions
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* Reply-To: tromey at cygnus dot com
(This was me):
>> Does anyone mind if i use the typeinfo name, rather than
>> the virtual table name, to figure out th real type of an object? It
>> only matters if someone does -fno-rtti, i believe. But I have no
>> idea how many people actually use that flag to save time/space in
>> debugging executables.
Jim> Almost all of Cygnus's customers use GDB to debug embedded apps,
Jim> and space is often an issue there. But I don't actually know how
Jim> many of them use -fno-rtti.
All Java programs are compiled with -fno-rtti. This includes the C++
component. So presumably if this change is made it will make it even
harder for me to debug libgcj.
Tom