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Re: Unifying the GCC Debugging Interface
On 11/19/12, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2012 Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> > So, yes, the larger layouting should be determined by name of the
> > dump function. A flag argument might look nice from an interface
> > design perspective, but it's harder to use in the debugger.
>
> As long as all these different objects share the same data
> structure, we will need to have different named entry points.
> Ideally they would all respond to 'dump(t)' and overloading will
> figure it out automatically. For now, we'll need dump_function,
> dump_tree, dump_generic, and we may need a few more.
Diego and I talked about this a bit more, and would like to explore
a set of dump names that distinguish between dumping the head of
an item and its body. In essence, the former asks for the function
declaration, the latter its definition.
Comments?
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Lawrence Crowl