From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3971 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2002 03:08:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3930 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2002 03:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 2002 03:08:32 -0000 Received: from 01-056.118.popsite.net ([66.19.120.56] helo=nevyn.them.org) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17LbGI-0001xv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:08:30 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17LbGO-0000wJ-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:08:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:08:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Live Range Splitting goodbye? Message-ID: <20020622030835.GA3586@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00191.txt.bz2 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