RE: Infcall of a template function in a C++ program

* On Friday, July 19, 2019 10:12 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> >>>>> ">" == Aktemur, Tankut Baris <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >> The compiler is able to do the type inference, template function
> >> instantiation, and function invocation based on the expressions `foo (5)`
> >> and `foo ('a')`.  When we start GDB and attempt to evaluate these
> >> expressions, the corresponding functions are not resolved, though.
> 
> >> Opinions on how to address this problem properly are welcome.
> 
> Once upon a time, Sami Wagiaalla wrote some patches to do this.
> I don't believe they ever went in.  I don't remember why any more.
> However, perhaps they could be resurrected.  They were sent to
> gdb-patches, years ago now.
> 

Thank you for the pointer. I think this is the patch you're referring to:

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-07/msg00284.html

We'll check the contents.

-Baris

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