From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Snyder To: Jim Blandy Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Revised C++ ABI abstraction patches Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:32:00 -0000 Message-id: <3AB1161E.61926465@cygnus.com> References: <200103151850.KAA30796@bosch.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00245.html Jim Blandy wrote: > > Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes: > > Lightly proofread, no obvious errors found. > > Great. That means all the bugs still there are non-obvious, and will > take a long time to find. Just make my day, will you. (Thanks.) > > > I would prefer constructor_prefix_p et al to be real functions rather > > than macros. When I single-step code in gdb, it's a lot easier to follow > > real functions than macros. > > I agree completely. But it is not the standard practice (see target.h > and elsewhere) and others don't seem to mind. So I reined in my prima > donna urges and left them as macros. There is an ongoing effort to get away from that. Go ahead, Jim -- let your prima donna run free! ;-) > > And besides, function calls are so slow. Remember, GDB's performance > matters a lot --- it's used to debug real-time operating systems! I assume you're joking.