Re: [rfa] teach linespec about nested classes

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

David Carlton writes:
 > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:11:52 -0500, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
 > 
 > > The approach looks ok, but, how does the HP related comment fit in
 > > with the new code? I know it came in with the HP merge, which is a
 > > clue as to its accuracy.... I guess MichaelC found no problems, so
 > > it should be ok.
 > 
 > As far as I can tell from that and from other comments elsewhere, HP
 > must have been the first people with a C++ compiler that supported
 > namespaces and that GDB supported.  So some of the namespace-related
 > comments look more HP-specific than they were.  Also, as far as I can
 > tell, HP was generating fully-qualified type names long before we
 > were, so that would have led to some differences as well.  But now I
 > think that the names should look quite similar for DWARF 2 code and HP
 > code, so those comments shouldn't be relevant any more.
 > 

definitely HP were first on a lot of the c++ stuff, yes. And they
changed a lot of decode_lie_1 (now decode_compound).

 > I couldn't think of any reason why looking up every intermediate name
 > as a class would make any more sense for HP than it would for other
 > cases.  And, as you say, MichaelC found no problems, which is good.
 > 

probably their compiler has changed too, in 5+ years (this stuff dates
back to 1997).

 > > I have a new version which incorporates the new comments.  Does this
 > > still work for you?
 > 
 > The functionality is fine, but the comments are a little off (it
 > includes the out-of-date HP comments instead of my new ones).  How
 > about this version?  I updated my comments to use the same example
 > that you had used.

groan, I missed that. Sure, you can commit this.