Re: RFC: fix PR 12707

Tom Tromey
2013-01-17T21:59:55Z

Tom> Changing other symbols to include the return type also seems difficult.

Jan> I do not see why. There exists no demangled name with the return type
Jan> anywhere for normal non-template functions.

I expect it will break expression parsing.

Tom> The proposed change means that a breakpoint could still be set, just not
Tom> including the return type.

Jan> It cannot be set by copy-pasting the symbol name from nm or similar tools.

Of all the choices I consider this the least bad.

Jan> The data structures could contain both names - with the return type and
Jan> without the return type - so that GDB does match both.

I think that would require too much memory for what is really a marginal
feature.

Tom