From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa/c++] cp_lookup_rtti_type, take 2
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031205171658.GB27834@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yf2r7zjnq7u.fsf@hawaii.kealia.com>
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:12:37AM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
> > We've got a vtbl pointer, and we want type information for it.
> > So we translate:
>
> > vtbl address -> minsym
> > minsym -> mangled name
> > mangled name -> demangled name
> > demangled name -> prefix
> > prefix -> symbol
> > symbol -> type
>
> > Maybe we should just go from the vtbl address to the symbol without
> > converting to a name and back again?!
>
> It would be nice if we could eventually short-circuit much or all of
> this. As Daniel likes to point out, we should try to reduce our
> demangler dependencies wherever possible, and this is a particularly
> unpleasant one.
How do you suggest we do it? Some new addition to the debug info? I
don't believe we have anything at the moment that fills this need.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-05 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-05 4:23 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-05 5:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-05 17:12 ` David Carlton
2003-12-05 17:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-12-05 17:38 ` David Carlton
2003-12-05 17:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2003-12-05 5:26 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-01 21:40 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-05 3:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-05 16:57 ` David Carlton
2003-12-05 17:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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