Re: [rfa/c++] cp_lookup_rtti_type, take 2

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-05T17:16:17Z

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:57:56AM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:29:59 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:40:39PM -0500, Michael Chastain wrote:
>
> >> . The calls to lookup_rtti_type need a proper "block" parameter.
> >> The old code needed this too; I haven't regressed anything.
> >> I put FIXME notes in for this.
>
> > I'm not as sure as you are about this - certainly we do _not_ want a
> > block that came down the call chain; think about what dynamic type
> > is.
>
> Good point. Oops.
>
> > Ignoring anonymous namespaces for now.)
>
> Yes...
>
> > Now that we've had another major release of GDB I am extremely
> > tempted to rip out aCC C++ support.
>
> You'll get no complaints from me.
>
> >> . Nested types give a warning and don't work.
> >> It would be nice to make them work.
>
> > It's a pain. I spent quite some time trying to sort out the issues.
> > I'll give it a shot again after more of David's patches have been
> > merged.
>
> I think they should work okay after my patch that is waiting for
> approval gets applied?

Perhaps. I was working with stabs at the time.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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