Re: [rfa] clean up lookup_symbol_aux

[David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:21:32 -0500, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
> David Carlton writes:

>> So ifdeffing it out won't change the behavior of GDB at all, it'll
>> just preserve another one of GDB's mysteries for that much longer.
>> But ifdeffing it won't hurt anything, either, so I can certainly do
>> it if you'd be happier.

> Yes, please. It wouldn't be the first time that weird things happen
> because of apparently insignificant changes.

Fair enough.

> (see the old proverbial wait_for_inferior).

?

>> If you can look at the bugfix one first, I'd appreciate it, because
>> I don't want to move out the local/symtab/psymtab stuff before
>> having that bugfix patch accepted.  (If the bugfix patch isn't
>> accepted, moving out the other parts of the code might lead to
>> bizarre consequences.)

> Ok approved. Good catch.

Thanks.  Then I'll apply those two tomorrow, and submit a new RFA for
a patch which does the minsym stuff, together with an analysis of the
differences between the two versions of the minsym code.  Joel has
been kind enough to run it on his machine (but I haven't yet looked at
the results yet!), so we'll see whether or not I got it right on HPUX.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu