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MI: -var-create does not resolve typedefs
- From: "Martin Richtarsky" <s at martinien dot de>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:19:11 +0200
- Subject: MI: -var-create does not resolve typedefs
Hi,
the result of the -var-create command is documented here [1] as follows:
?type?
The varobj?s type. This is a string representation of the type, as
would be printed by the GDB CLI.
However, for a typedef this does not seem to hold:
$ cat mi.cpp
#include <string>
#include <vector>
typedef std::vector<std::string> StringVec;
typedef int MyInt;
int main()
{
size_t a = 0;
StringVec sv;
MyInt i;
return 0;
}
$ g++ -g2 mi.cpp
$ gdb --interpreter=mi a.out
...
1-var-create - * "a"
1^done,name="var1",numchild="0",value="4195792",type="size_t",thread-id="1",has_more="0"
(gdb)
2-var-create - * "sv"
2^done,name="var2",numchild="1",value="{...}",type="StringVec",thread-id="1",has_more="0"
(gdb)
ptype(a)
&"ptype(a)\n"
~"type = unsigned long\n"
^done
(gdb)
ptype(sv)
&"ptype(sv)\n"
~"type = class std::vector<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char,
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > [with _Tp =
std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >,
_Alloc = std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
std::allocator<char> > >] : protected std::_Vector_base<_Tp, _Alloc> {\n"
~" public:\n"
Note how ptype resolves the typedef, but -var-create just shows the alias.
The issue can be solved by a simple patch:
--- a/gdb/varobj-orig.c
+++ b/gdb/varobj.c
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ varobj_get_type (struct varobj *var)
if (CPLUS_FAKE_CHILD (var) || !var->root->is_valid)
return std::string ();
- return type_to_string (var->type);
+ return type_to_string (check_typedef(var->type));
}
/* Obtain the type of an object variable. */
This would also solve the issue I'm having when using MI with a split
dwarf build and a gold index [2]
Is this a bug or is the typedef intentionally not resolved?
[1]
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Variable-Objects.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23042
Best regards,
Martin
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