Re: skip_typespec abort

[Ken Cline]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> Do you have a method that returns something like:
> 
>   struct { 
>     int val1;
>     char *val2;
>     char *val3;
>     unsigned char val4;
>     unsigned char val5;
>     int val6:2;
>     int val7:6;
>   }
> 
> ?

Would returning FILE * qualify?  Its a match!  Thanks.

> (Swarm can't parse these complex types.)

So I can just change the return type to a void * or an id
and then do some casting?  Could it be that easy?

> As for the GDB problem, that's a known bug in 4.18.
>
> I suggest grabbing a current snapshot from sourceware.cygnus.com, in
> which that mangling bug is fixed.

You know it seemed familiar, but then again all these bugs
are starting to sound alike. [sigh]

Thanks again.

Ken.

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