From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Viewing the symbol table as a database?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020917163828.GA31033@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D875955.9040508@ges.redhat.com>
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Should core GDB view the symbol table as a database. That way the
> internals are really abstracted.
>
> For instance, instead of pc->block->nametab->symbol, just do:
> lookup_symbol (symtab, pc, "name");
>
> Disclaimer: this isn't my idea but I think it is good. It will let the
> data structures scale beyond currend address space limitations.
Yes. I believe this is down the road of David's changes. It's not
quite that simple - I think we will need some options to the lookup,
but it's not clear what they are yet.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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