Re: [RFC] Reducing the use of current_language - some patches

["Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> As I said before, the goal of this exercise is to avoid having to play
> with the current language in order to do parsing operations in a language
> that may not be the current language.

This sounds like a good idea, thanks for taking care of it!

Just one suggestion that occurred to me: parsing operations depend
on further global state than just the current language; in particular
they depend on the "input_radix", and also on the currently active
gdbarch (which e.g. modifies language primitive types).

So I was wondering if we shouldn't add just a "language" parameter
to the parsing routines, but something more general, like a "parse
context" structure.  This could encapsulate all that global state,
and would be easily extensible in the future ...

Maybe (if this is a good idea), it could be done after your current
set of patches; on the other hand, as you're touching all those files
anyway, maybe it would be simpler to do it in one go.

What do you think?

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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