From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19539 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2003 14:40:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19532 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2003 14:40:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 7 Mar 2003 14:40:24 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18rKub-000837-00; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:41:33 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18rJ1F-0005TP-00; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:40:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:40:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: David Carlton Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [dictionary] commit for 2003-03-06 Message-ID: <20030307144017.GA20963@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Carlton , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:52:56PM -0800, David Carlton wrote: > Following Andrew's lead, I'm going to try to remember to post my > commits to carlton_dictionary-branch. They won't always be the > prettiest commits: I usually commit once at the end of each day that > I've done any work on the branch, assuming that I leave it in a > working state (which I almost always do!); this means that a commit > may contain something that I plan to continue the next day, and it > also may contain bits of unrelated tasks that I'm working on. Also, > the ChangeLogs aren't great: they're written in a way that is easy to > generate, as opposed to a way that is easiest to review years in the > future. (I'm much more careful with the ChangeLogs on the mainline, > don't worry!) > > This branch has as its primarily task to improve C++ namespace > support; it also contains cleanups related to symbol names, linespec, > and const correctness. (All of which I intend to move to the > mainline; I'm doing so gradually.) It's probably not as focussed a > branch as Andrew would like; it works for me, though. > > Today's commits are the start of cleaning up minimal symbol names and > accessors (which will be an ongoing task), and fixes a few (but not > all) FAILing regexps in gdb.c++/templates.exp (also ongoing, though > actually I think I'm more likely to try to get rid of the differences > in behavior rather than make the regexps more generous). > > Question for those of you who have read this far: now that > lookup_symbol_aux_minsyms is on its last legs (it's gone on the > branch), do you think we could get rid of the demangled hash table for > minsyms? I'll try to audit uses of lookup_minimal_symbol tomorrow or > next week. No. Every time you talk about removing something with minimal symbols, remember that we can use them to debug a program with no symbolic debug info. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer