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.
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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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