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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [1/4] RFC: refactor partial symbol tables
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hbqmcw7u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34ommc2vl.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:25:18 -0700
> 
> This patch does the bulk of the work.
> 
> I went through gdb and looked at all uses of partial symbol tables.  I
> moved all the psymtab code into a new file, and changed all the code in
> gdb to call via a new struct of function pointers.
> 
> Mostly this was straightforward.  The only surprise that I can remember
> was that Ada walks the psymtabs directly.
> 
> Now, symbol readers are allowed to include psympriv.h and access partial
> symbol tables.  However, generic code should not do this.  This ensures
> that partial symbol tables don't leak out into the main part of gdb.
> 
> The new "quick" function API is entirely ad hoc, based on existing gdb
> code.  I consolidated functions in a few places, but perhaps more could
> be done here.

Thanks.

Please look at the relevant sections of gdbint.texinfo and see if
something needs an update there, due to these changes.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-16  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-16  0:25 Tom Tromey
2010-01-16  8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-03-09 22:22   ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-10  4:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-10 18:46       ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-11 18:05     ` Stan Shebs
2010-03-12 18:35       ` Tom Tromey
2010-01-26 21:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-26 21:54   ` Tom Tromey
2010-01-26 21:58     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-26 22:06       ` Tom Tromey

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