Re: [PATCH/RFC] faster language identification

Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-11-07T19:43:30Z

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