From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11769 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2004 20:44:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11762 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2004 20:44:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hawaii.kealia.com) (209.3.10.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2004 20:44:58 -0000 Received: by hawaii.kealia.com (Postfix, from userid 2049) id C682CDA44; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:44:57 -0800 (PST) To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa] function overloading and namespaces References: <20040202200917.GA6423@nevyn.them.org> From: David Carlton Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:44:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040202200917.GA6423@nevyn.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:09:17 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:09:17 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz said: > I have some deep reservations about this overload resolution code. Yeah, me too. I hope that my patch doesn't make that situation any worse, but I certainly don't claim that it makes the situation significantly better. :-( > I am really sick of the number of variants of this C++ name parsing we > are spawning. While the rest of the branch will be some time yet > maturing, I will try to merge the relevant pieces of drow-cplus-branch > in the very near future. Then we can dispense with this function. Glad to hear it. > I'm also pretty tired of the growth of functions which concatenate > names with "::", or tear them apart with cp_find_next_component. We > need to use some more efficient structure for describing namespaces > than this. My personal hope is that we can un-flatten the symbol table > eventually, and have dictionaries per scope. Sounds good to me... Thanks, committed (with Eli's ChangeLog tweak). David Carlton carlton@kealia.com