Re: RFA/symtab: Let search_symbols find exact matches

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:41:18PM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
 > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:01:07 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
 > > 
 > > > This patch renames search_symbols to search_symbols_aux, and lets it take an
 > > > argument that specified regex or exact (well, strcmp_iw) matching.  Then
 > > > search_symbols becomes a wrapper.
 > > 
 > > > The new function is used by make_symbol_overload_list, which shaves 50% time
 > > > off of some tests in the C++ directory if your system libc has debugging
 > > > symbols; it removes the bogusity where all psymtabs were converted to
 > > > symtabs during overload resolution.  Whew.  This cuts memory for
 > > > namespace.exp from 70MB to 7MB, allowing some of my hardware to actually run
 > > > the test without crashing.
 > > 
 > > Here's take two on my comments on this.  First, I should say that I
 > > totally agree that the aforementioned bogusity in
 > > make_symbol_overload_list should go; as discussed in
 > > <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-02/msg00261.html>,
 > > though, there are ways of doing that that involve much less drastic
 > > changes.
 > 
 > Good enough for me.  This patch is withdrawn.  David, are you convinced
 > that lookup_partial_symbol is close enough to what we want for the
 > patch above?  You expressed some concerns earlier.  If you're happy
 > with it, I'll approve the patch.
 > 

As a matter of fact, could these c++ specific functions be moved to
cp-support.c? So you guys are free to do whatever you want with them.

If the patch is withdrawn please close the pr.


 > 
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 > Daniel Jacobowitz
 > MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer