From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17231 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2002 21:49:20 -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 17222 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2002 21:49:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2002 21:49:20 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17w9LR-00018E-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:48:54 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17w8OT-0007G8-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:47:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:49:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: David Carlton Cc: Elena Zannoni , gdb Subject: Re: the global symbol table Message-ID: <20020930214757.GA27886@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Carlton , Elena Zannoni , gdb References: <15762.8708.250726.680566@localhost.redhat.com> 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: 2002-09/txt/msg00512.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:02:47PM -0700, David Carlton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:52:20 -0400, Elena Zannoni 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