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From: "Paul N. Hilfinger" <hilfingr@otisco.mckusick.com>
To: carlton@kealia.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa] Add SYMBOL_SET_LINKAGE_NAME
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402200931.i1K9VtG27466@otisco.McKusick.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yf2u11o49qr.fsf@hawaii.kealia.com> (message from David Carlton on Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:45:32 -0800)


David,

> I was actually having similar thoughts on the way into work this
> morning.  Maybe what I should focus on first is trying to establish
> the notion that, when calling lookup_symbol, the name you pass in
> always has to be in the appropriate form: in particular, lookup_symbol
> would never try to demangle a name on the fly.  In the non-Ada world,
> that would mean that we always search by natural name; but it would
> pave the way for you to introduce your SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME concept.
> That way, SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME would have a clear meaning (even if
> nothing else would :-) ): it would be the name that you pass to
> lookup_symbol when trying to search for that symbol.
> 
> Does that make sense to you?  If so, I'll start generating appropriate
> patches.

It does; that certainly is the notion we currently adhere to with our
version of lookup_symbol, and also applies to C/C++.   

Paul Hilfinger

P.S. Sorry for the delay: site visit approaching.


      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-20  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-16 21:24 Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-16 21:53 ` Elena Zannoni
2004-02-16 22:57   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-16 23:35     ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-02-17  0:05       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-17  9:59         ` Paul N. Hilfinger
2004-02-17 15:57     ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-17 16:01       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-17 19:14         ` Elena Zannoni
2004-02-17 19:29           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-17 23:10             ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-18  0:43             ` Elena Zannoni
2004-02-18  1:04               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-18  0:20 ` David Carlton
2004-02-18  0:23   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-18  0:27     ` Elena Zannoni
2004-02-18  0:32       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-18  0:54         ` Elena Zannoni
2004-02-18  1:06           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-18  0:49   ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-02-18  1:27     ` David Carlton
2004-02-18  8:12       ` Paul N. Hilfinger
2004-02-18 16:45         ` David Carlton
2004-02-20  9:32           ` Paul N. Hilfinger [this message]

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