Re: [PATCH/RFC] faster language identification

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:46:22PM +0200, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> DWARFx encodes the language. In such a case, I think it is more 
> reliable to get the language from the object, instead of looking at the 
> source files' extensions.
> 
> Comments?

Please don't.  See:

/* Set the initial language.

   A better solution would be to record the language in the psymtab when reading
   partial symbols, and then use it (if known) to set the language.  This would
   be a win for formats that encode the language in an easily discoverable place,
   such as DWARF.  For stabs, we can jump through hoops looking for specially
   named symbols or try to intuit the language from the specific type of stabs
   we find, but we can't do that until later when we read in full symbols.
   FIXME.  */

static void
set_initial_language (void)

Either that or there should be a psymtab_language() method somewhere.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer