Re: [Repost] RFC: dump gengtype structures

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

Laurynas Biveinis <laurynas.biveinis@gmail.com> writes:

> [Third try. Apparently the compressed dump was still too big to get through]
>
> So I got fed up with trying to navigate gengtype maze of type_p,
> pair_p and others and trying to figure out the difference between
> GC_POINTED_TO and GC_USED and what is so "maybe" about
> GC_MAYBE_POINTED_TO, thus I extended gengtype to dump its data
> structures representing GCC data types and variables.
>
> I wanted to attach an example dump it produced but it is about 350K
> compressed and so it's too big for this mailing list. ÂIt's not
> perfect since I
> did depth-first processing and the very first type goes very deep
> indeed by pulling virtually all of the remaining types and taking
> perhaps 80% of the output. However it is already much more usable and
> greppable for looking into interesting types than trying to do the
> same in GDB.
>
> I will commit this to gc-improv branch shortly. I think this is
> interesting enough to have on the trunk too and I will submit together
> with some other patches from gc-improv in couple of weeks.
>
> Any comments?

This looks like a good idea to me.  The patch looks fine.

Ian