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From: "Paul N. Hilfinger" <hilfingr@otisco.mckusick.com>
To: carlton@bactrian.org
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, ezannoni@redhat.com, jimb@redhat.com,
	drow@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] lookups with natural/linkage names
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 08:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305240811.h4O8BJu10644@otisco.McKusick.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iss12pj5.fsf@papaya.bactrian.org> (message from David Carlton on Fri, 23 May 2003 16:48:14 -0700)


> * Add a function

>    struct symbol *lookup_symbol_linkage (const char *name);

>  that looks up the symbol whose linkage name is NAME.  It only looks
>  up global or static symbols (with preference to the former), and
>  only looks up symbols in VAR_DOMAIN; it doesn't apply any
>  language-specific rules.  This will, for example, give us a reliable
>  way to find the symbol associated to a minsym, no matter how
>  complicated C++ lookup rules make things.

David,

What exactly is the reasoning that says that such lookups needn't consider
local (or rather non-static/global) symbols?

Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-24  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-23 23:48 David Carlton
2003-05-24  8:11 ` Paul N. Hilfinger [this message]
2003-05-24 14:36   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-05-26 10:43     ` Paul N. Hilfinger
2003-05-27 15:55       ` David Carlton
2003-05-24 21:10   ` David Carlton

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