Re: RFC: Demangle partial symbols and save memory too

Andreas Schwab
2003-01-27T22:17:57Z

David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu> writes:

|> I also toyed with trying to replace 'struct XXX *' with 'const struct
|> XXX *' wherever appropriate. That one's harder, though, because there
|> are structures in GDB where values are computed lazily and cached: so
|> not only are there functions that are logically const but not actually
|> const, but I also worried that making too many declarations const now
|> would inhibit such caching in the future. Maybe in a couple of years
|> we can switch GDB over to C++ instead of C and use 'mutable'...

Even in C casting away const is OK as long as the object isn't read-only
in the first place. You just have to be careful to make sure this is not
violated.

Andreas.

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