From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Live Range Splitting goodbye?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020622030835.GA3586@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <npptykccjr.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:44:24PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> Would anyone mind if I deleted the support for live range splitting?
> That would remove the following fields from struct symbol, get rid of
> a weird call to read_pc in symtab.c (!!), and a bunch of other stuff.
>
> I believe the GCC code which would emit the sorts of STABS that turn
> into these structures has never been contributed to the public sources
> anyway.
>
> struct symbol
> {
> ...
>
> /* Link to a list of aliases for this symbol.
> Only a "primary/main symbol may have aliases. */
> struct alias_list *aliases;
>
> /* List of ranges where this symbol is active. This is only
> used by alias symbols at the current time. */
> struct range_list *ranges;
> };
Right on all counts. Please, go ahead!
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-22 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-21 18:44 Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 19:13 ` Elena Zannoni
2002-06-21 20:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-06-21 21:46 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-06-26 12:22 ` Jim Blandy
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