Re: [rfa/c++] cp_lookup_rtti_type, take 2

[David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:29:59 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:40:39PM -0500, Michael Chastain wrote:

>> . The calls to lookup_rtti_type need a proper "block" parameter.
>> The old code needed this too; I haven't regressed anything.
>> I put FIXME notes in for this.

> I'm not as sure as you are about this - certainly we do _not_ want a
> block that came down the call chain; think about what dynamic type
> is. 

Good point.  Oops.

> Ignoring anonymous namespaces for now.)

Yes...

> Now that we've had another major release of GDB I am extremely
> tempted to rip out aCC C++ support.

You'll get no complaints from me.

>> . Nested types give a warning and don't work.
>> It would be nice to make them work.

> It's a pain.  I spent quite some time trying to sort out the issues.
> I'll give it a shot again after more of David's patches have been
> merged.

I think they should work okay after my patch that is waiting for
approval gets applied?

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com