Re: adding namespace support to GDB

Daniel Berlin
2002-08-23T18:42:59Z

On 23 Aug 2002, David Carlton wrote:

> In article <3D6677D3.6E84743C@caldera.com>, Petr Sorfa
> <petrs@caldera.com> writes:
>
> > Well to help things along I will be submitting a DWARF patch that
> > will supported imported declarations which are essential for FORTRAN
> > modules and C++ namespaces.
>
> Great, I look forward to reading it.
>
> > This is essential for the "using" commands in either language (of
> > course the compiler needs to generate the correct DWARF
> > ;o)).
>
> Yes, well, there is always that.

This is easy, i've had patches to do it forever, that are already
approved.
I'm just waiting for gdb to get around to namespace support before
committing them, because it turns out we don't want to add a -gdwarf-3
switch.
> Certainly it seems like a solution
> for C++ will initially have to get recreate namespace info from
> DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name, and there's no way that we'll be able to
> allow users to use symbol names as if all the appropriate using
> directives were in effect, since that information simply isn't in the
> debug information that GCC is currently producing. (Though that's not
> the end of the world: we should be able to do name lookup using C++'s
> name resolution rules based on the enclosing function and its
> arguments, presumably.)
>
> David Carlton
> carlton@math.stanford.edu
>
>