Rust-GCC / Rust-GCC/gccrs

Accessing tuple-struct members fails in GDB

Open
#913 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

bug
Dominant language
C++
Stars
2.9k
Forks
231
Avg merge
19h 55m
Merged PRs (30d)
67

Description

I tried this code:

Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at test.rs:26
26          let a = Foo::<i32>::new::<f32>(123, 456f32);
(gdb) n
27          let b = Foo::new::<f32>(123, 456f32);
(gdb) p a
$1 = {0: 123}
(gdb) p a.0
Anonymous field access is only allowed on tuples, tuple structs, and tuple-like enum variants

I expected to see this happen: gdb prints 123

Instead, this happened: "Anonymous field access is only allowed on tuples, tuple structs, and tuple-like enum variants"

Meta
  • What version of Rust GCC were you using, git sha if possible. 257bf55827474e500d83d96b7a8f8ebacbd11e7d

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Reproduce the failure using the Rust snippet in test.rs and GDB, starting with the tuple-struct expression at test.rs:26 and the p a.0 command. Trace how gccrs exposes tuple-struct members to GDB; done means GDB prints 123 for a.0 instead of rejecting anonymous field access.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.