Re: [RFA] [patch] 'info symbol' to print more info

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> But here, the message is already built up from 3 separate conditions,
> and I am adding one more. What you are proposing then leads to a
> chain of 16 if/then/else clauses. I don't think that's really
> appropriate ...

I haven't looked very closely at the details of the patch since Michael
and Eli already did, so I can't comment on the exact number of if
branches. But, generally speaking, we just don't have much choice if
we want to support i18n well.

That being said, I agree that 16 branches is a large number, and perhaps
we should let go of some of them. For instance, there was this discussion
about not printing the name of the objfile if MULTI_OBJFILE_P. If we
get rid of that, does it reduce the number of cases?  The idea itself
is nice, but perhaps code simplicity is more important in this case.
Are there any other cosmectic features that we can get rid of to
reduce the number of cases further?

-- 
Joel