Re: [PATCH] Prune some deadwood in dwarf2read.c:decode_locdesc

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:19:50PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> This patch is obvious; barring comments I'll commit it in a day or two.
> Neither of these flags is checked any more now that LOC_COMPUTED is used.
> 
> The current status quo, by the way, is that there is one caller of
> decode_locdesc left which checks these global flags.  I believe that that
> call (for DW_AT_frame_base) is entirely dead and can be removed, after which
> it will be possible to simplify decode_locdesc even further.  But it's
> slightly less trivially dead, so I'll do that in a separate patch when I'm
> more awake.
> 
> After that, decode_locdesc will only ever be used in places where we expect
> a constant result - a global variable, a structure offset, et cetera. 
> Everything else has been converted to LOC_COMPUTED and LOC_COMPUTED_ARG.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> 
> 2003-11-16  Daniel Jacobowitz  <drow@mvista.com>
> 
> 	* dwarf2read.c (optimized_out, islocal): Remove.
> 	(decode_locdesc): Update comments.  Don't set optimized_out
> 	or islocal.

Checked in.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer