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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/commit/dwarf] Create partial symbols for nested 	subprograms
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> Daniel> Not that I see any useful way around it, if subprograms really
> Daniel> can be children of lexical blocks.
> 
> Can we do it only for languages where we know this can occur?
> IOW, Ada?

That's what I was going to propose, but I wanted to do some measurement
too (tomorrow). Nested subprograms are possible in C, and aren't they
also available in C++? I don't mind supporting this only in Ada, though.

-- 
Joel