From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] Use our builtin type when evaluating conditional expressions
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090317201231.GF31979@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tz5rlxry.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
> I'm curious whether this will be a problem for any language defining
> bool_type_symbol. If so, perhaps a language-neutral fix could be
> found. If not, what is it that makes this specific to Ada?
In most language, the lookup stops at the first match. In Ada,
we have to continue the lookup over all units, in case we have
homonyms. This is why we have treated this as an Ada-specific issue.
--
Joel
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2009-03-13 1:35 Joel Brobecker
2009-03-17 20:12 ` Tom Tromey
2009-03-17 20:13 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
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