Re: RFC: change debug pseudo-type for vectors

[Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>]

DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

>> Errr, GDB will run into the same exact problem, when passing it as
>> an argument to functions you calll.
>
> So the basic answer is "sorry, you're screwed" ?  I really don't want
> to tell a customer that when the information gdb is printing is so
> obviously wrong.
Well, you can't do it without special casing it in gdb. At least, not
easily.

We can't change the debug info output, that would screw other
debuggers.
We don't want to introduce GDB specific extensions to DWARF2/etc just
to handle this case (IE at DW_AT_GNU_show_as or something).

It's a "your damned if you do, your damned if you don't" situation.


--Dan

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