Re: [RFA] buildsym.c cleanup

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:
>
> Doug> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>>>> I have no idea about the COFF change.  It isn't clear to me whether
>>>> coffread and stabsread expect to share the same globals or not.
>>>
>>> I do not have a real idea either, but looking at the code, I do not
>>> think so. The indices used to index the types seem completely
>>> unrelated...
>
> Doug> Hi.  So what's the verdict here?
> Doug> Should we wait until we can find someone to test this on coff, or
> Doug> check the patch in now.
>
> Joel said he thinks the globals aren't shared.
> If you agree then I think it is fine to go ahead and put it in.

Committed.

For reference sake, I did an m32r-coff port of binutils,gcc,newlib,gdb
to do some additional testing.
[found some m32r issues, which is good, and I now have a simple port
from which to do further coff testing should it be necessary - though
I'm happy to see coff go anytime. :-)]