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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix initial language with -readnow, regressed by: RFC: add DWARF index support
References: <20110928220344.GA17977@host1.jankratochvil.net>	<20110928230742.GB19246@adacore.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:49:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20110928230742.GB19246@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of	"Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:07:42 -0700")
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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> I keep dreaming of a world where there is one interface for lookups
Joel> and we don't have to worry whether there is an index, or psymtabs,
Joel> or whatever...

I agree, and I think that any divergences from this ideal -- from the
caller's point of view -- are bugs.  I tried pretty hard to present a
uniform interface to psymtabs and the like; not a pretty interface, but
uniform :)

Tom