From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
Cc: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>, gdb <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: the global symbol table
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020930214757.GA27886@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ro165wnw8ig.fsf@jackfruit.Stanford.EDU>
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:02:47PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:52:20 -0400, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
>
> > I wonder if rewriting the symbol table is really necessary in order
> > to provide namespace support.
>
> Now I'm starting to wonder if it's a good idea, too: I just noticed
> 'block_found', which throws a monkey wrench into some of my ideas.
> Sigh. Maybe it really would be wisest to get namespace support
> working first.
>
> While trying to understand lookup_symbol_aux, I've cleaned it up a bit
> (in order to eliminate duplicate code, etc.); I'll probably submit
> patches for those, since I think they'll make it easier to maintain
> the function in the future. But, for now, I'll hold off on any more
> serious changes.
I have the feeling that rewriting the symbol table support might be
better done _after_ we have some namespace working...
I'm making a little bit of progress but I haven't had much time lately.
First I need to do a lot of output cleanup so that I can test changes
properly; that'll be dribbling in over the next month I hope.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 12:59 David Carlton
2002-09-25 13:54 ` Elena Zannoni
2002-09-25 14:02 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-25 16:17 ` David Carlton
2002-09-30 13:08 ` David Carlton
2002-09-30 14:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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