On Fri, 16 May 2014, Tom Tromey wrote: > In the typical case, when compiling a snippet of user code, gdb wraps > the user's text in a dummy function. > > It's somewhat odd for users if an error in their code is mentioned as > coming from this dummy function. > > This patch makes it possible to suppress the function-name display in > a straightforward way: it adds a new global which the plugin can set > to declare the name of the dummy function. > > This patch seems like a bit of a hack, but there didn't seem to be a > notably cleaner approach.
I'd say this global actually belongs somewhere in the diagnostic_context (i.e., instead of the diagnostic_context_auxiliary_data (DC) actually being a tree as it is at present, it should point to a structure with whatever extra information clients wish to use to control aspects of diagnostic reporting). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
