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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Demangle partial symbols and save memory too
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je8yx6z17w.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ro17kcqqm6o.fsf@jackfruit.Stanford.EDU> (David Carlton's message of "27 Jan 2003 14:09:51 -0800")

David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu> writes:

|> I also toyed with trying to replace 'struct XXX *' with 'const struct
|> XXX *' wherever appropriate.  That one's harder, though, because there
|> are structures in GDB where values are computed lazily and cached: so
|> not only are there functions that are logically const but not actually
|> const, but I also worried that making too many declarations const now
|> would inhibit such caching in the future.  Maybe in a couple of years
|> we can switch GDB over to C++ instead of C and use 'mutable'...

Even in C casting away const is OK as long as the object isn't read-only
in the first place.  You just have to be careful to make sure this is not
violated.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-27 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-26 22:27 Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-27  1:54 ` Paul N. Hilfinger
2003-01-27  2:02   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-27 18:53 ` David Carlton
2003-01-27 19:00   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-27 19:10     ` David Carlton
2003-01-27 21:21     ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-27 22:09       ` David Carlton
2003-01-27 22:17         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-01-27 22:24           ` David Carlton
2003-01-27 23:17             ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-28 23:57 ` Jim Blandy
2003-01-30  1:16   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-04 18:07     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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