Re: [RFA]: Turn on initial Ada support in GDB

[Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@gnat.com>]

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Subject: Re: [RFA]: Turn on initial Ada support in GDB
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I wrote to Andrew:

> Well, I can't commit the symtab.c changes until the Ada files are included,
> due to use of ada_decode_symbol.

Andrew responded:

> Oops!  That's a bug in that patch -> we're ment to dispatch language 
> specific stuff through the language vector.


Inasmuch as the symtab.c patch has been approved (twice), I'm getting
a little whipsawn here.  I happen to agree with your sentiment, but
could we pretty please get this Ada stuff in, after which I promise to
look into the refactoring you have requested here?  If you look at the
existing code (even before the modifications I put in some time ago to
add a necessary hook) there are specific tests in symtab.c for C++, C,
Java, Objc.  OK; this is a design bug, but let's just say that it is a
TIC (Tenants in Common) sort of bug.

Paul