Re: [RFA/dwarf2] Use SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME to set type name

[Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>]

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:45:26 -0800
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> Sigh, this is a hack on top af another.  Unfortunately the initial
> review of the symtab Ada changes wasn't helpful.  I have no choice but
> to let this go in for now, however, please, start thinking of a way to
> get rid of those special cases in SYMBOL_blah_NAME.  Making those
> become part of the language vector comes to mind.

Elena,

Would you perhaps elaborate on this critique a bit?
SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME is, by definition, the name by which a client (in
this case, a language module) looks up an entity, so it would seem
appropriate for this context.

Is your concern that SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME (and the other SYMBOL_*_NAMEs,
for that matter) involve language-specific tests in their
implementations---i.e., that they are not properly object-orientized?
This of course is a long-standing blotch.  If you think it important,
I could fix it (for Ada and C++) as you suggest with some additions to
the language vector.  The only annoyance here is that we'd then want to
introduce a new fast mapping from 

	  enum language => struct language_defn * 

rather than using the current definition of
language_def (which does a lookup).

Paul