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Re: Patch to fix PR9861
TJ Laurenzo writes:
> On 9/26/05, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I tried your patch, and while it correctly demangles, it doesn't allow
> > me to put a breakpoint on 'f.main(java.lang.String[])' However,
> > putting a breakpoint on 'void f.main(java.lang.String[])' does work,
> > as you might expect.
> >
> > This has the rather nasty effect of breaking tab completion in gdb.
> > For example, you can't type "break 'f<tab>" and get a nice list of the
> > methods in f to choose from.
> >
> > It ought to be possible to fix this in gdb, though. I'll investigate
> > some more.
>
> That just occurred to me about 10 seconds before your email hit my
> mailbox. There are some C++ cases where this can happen too (function
> templates and operators, if I recall). They are probably corner cases
> that GDB doesn't handle specially, though.
>
> What if the return type demangling didn't print the return type first
> (the return type could be in parentheses or something after the
> argument list or it could end with " returns void")? That would also
> be a way to solve the problem.
It would. Nice idea.
Andrew.