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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Getting sensible information from gdb |
| Date | 2015-10-13 17:16 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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"Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> writes: > On 13.10.2015 15:13, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> writes: >> <snip union example> >>> So using this approach, I don't need to cast into different types, >>> rather the type of the union struct will be found based on the name of >>> the struct member being accessed? >> >> Yes. And you can, if you like, add access functions that check the type >> member on every access. > > OK, cool. > >> In another organisation you can define all the separate structues (I'd >> still use a common struct for the common elements rather than >> duplicating the declarations) and then you put them all in a union for >> those cases where you need a generic object. I'm not sure which would >> suit you better. > > Well getting rid of all those casts is a good enough reason to use this > type of struct. > > As for having a generic object, I don't quite like the idea of > allocating a full-size struct and then resizing it by some bytes > if they aren't necessary. That's not what I meant, but if you are likely to use the first outline there's no point in drilling down into the second scheme. > But I could create factory functions for this then, that allocate > memory for the largest possible struct and then give it the right > memory allocation before passing it back. Or not? I don't follow, but, as I said above, if this is about my "other organisation" there is no need to use it if you prefer the one I sketched in code. -- Ben.
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Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-11 14:47 -0700
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Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 04:04 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-11 19:37 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 05:16 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 00:01 -0400
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 06:06 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 00:48 -0400
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 07:08 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-11 18:56 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-10-11 18:14 -0400
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 00:20 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 21:07 -0400
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 03:59 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-11 23:21 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-11 23:32 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 08:42 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-12 17:13 +0100
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 23:50 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-13 01:39 +0100
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 03:04 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-13 14:13 +0100
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 16:26 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-13 17:16 +0100
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 18:27 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:17 +0100
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 02:26 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 03:59 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-14 13:04 +0100
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 12:48 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 08:41 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-11 16:18 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 01:22 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-11 16:42 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 02:16 +0200
Getting sensible information from gdb "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 18:59 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 04:09 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 19:28 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 04:59 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 07:10 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-12 19:41 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-12 17:59 +1300
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 07:36 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 22:59 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 08:27 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2015-10-12 10:55 +0200
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-12 08:04 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-12 17:35 +0100
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-12 08:00 -0700
Re: Getting sensible information from gdb James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 12:25 -0400
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