Re: [PATCH/RFC] faster language identification

[Elias Athanasopoulos <eathan@otenet.gr>]

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:34:09PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.

Actually, this is what the patch does. :-) It sets the language according
to the information recorded in the psymtab (_if_ it is recorded, as it does with
DWARF).

Elias