Re: [RFA] OSF/1 - "next" over prologueless function call

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-02T07:53:36Z

Hi Joel,

> ... I see some target-specific code uses a grab-bag field of the
> minimal_symbol structure to store some target-specific information
> (field "info"). I don't particularly fancy typeless fields like this,
> but, just thinking aloud, we could add a new fields holding some flags
> which would be defined in gdb in an manor independent of the target.

I would like to clean up the "info" field.
The only thing it's used for is these target-specific bit flags.
It's really stupid that it's a "void *"!

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-11/msg00094.html

When I get some more cycles, and Elena gets some more cycles,
I'll bring it up for discussion again.

Michael C
too tired to work, not too tired to blabber