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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] pascal: Add lowercase copy of symbol name
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100429223157.GA2768@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002101cae7e9$e7229540$b567bfc0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>

>   Here is a step in that direction: adding a new pascal_specific field
>   for general_symbol_info structure, fill it with a lowercase copy of
>   the symbol name and use that lowercase copy for searches if
>   case_sensitivityy is off.
> 
>   I did not yet really decide exactly how I am going to use this
>   inside that pascal expression parser.  One idea would be to first
>   try an exact match, and if that fails, try again forcing
>   case_sensitivity to off temporarily.
> 
> Comments?

I can't really say that I am fond of this approach - at all. We already
store the linkage name as well as the natural name. Can't you use that
in the language-specific lookup routines to make the search case
insensitive?

There is also something I'm confused about: If Pascal is *not* case-
sensitive, why make the debugger optionally case-sensitive? Why not
always have a case-insensitive interpreter?  You aluded that there were
some reasons...


-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-29 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-29 22:18 Pierre Muller
2010-04-29 22:32 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-04-29 22:54   ` Pierre Muller
2010-04-29 23:09     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-30  7:27 ` Jan Kratochvil

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