Re: [rfa] add 'parent' field to struct die_info

Elena Zannoni
2003-10-02T16:00:35Z

Jim Blandy writes:
>
> Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:
> > Each debugging information entry is defined either to have child
> > entries or not to have child entries. If an entry is defined not to
> > have children, the next physically succeeding entry is a sibling. If
> > an entry is defined to have children, the next physically succeeding
> > entry is its first child. Additional children are represented as
> > siblings of the first child. A chain of sibling entries is terminated
> > by a null entry.
>
> Sure, that sort of explanation would be appropriate for the die
> reading code, but I think it would just be confusing for 'struct
> die_info'. Once we've built the die tree in memory, all that detail
> is gone, and you've just got the pure tree structure. There's no
> concept of "the next physically succeeding entry", for example.

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