Re: Proposal: convert function definitions to prototyped form

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> As many of you know, I'm in the midst of purging the use of ``PARAMS''
> in prototyped function declarations from the gdb sources.  After this
> activity is concluded, I'd like to begin converting function
> definitions whose parameters are declared using the traditional C
> style to the ISO C prototyped form.  I.e, I'd like to convert
> functions of the form

Kevin,

Would a fair summary of this be that you've encountered the following
road blocks:

	o	indent.pro

		So that indent gives better results


	o	a drain of some of the backlog of
		patches (pascal I believe is now
		going in).

		Apple and HP?

No one has objected to the principal (well not on gdb-patches :-) and
the tool would be based on perl rather than the the gcc thing.

Once those blockages are cleared, it can be scheduled and can go
through?

	Andrew
From shebs@apple.com Mon Jun 12 18:15:00 2000
From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
To: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>, Eric Bachalo <ebachalo@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Proposal: convert function definitions to prototyped form
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Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> Funny you guys bring up the number of types in GDB.
> According to the debug info, there are >82,000.
> How exactly are we counting them, again?

Since GDB sources are around 400K lines or so, it's highly unlikely
that there is a type definition for every five lines in the
C sources.  You're seeing duplicates in the debug info, presumably.

Stan
From dan@cgsoftware.com Mon Jun 12 18:23:00 2000
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Before my patches to eliminate duplicate dwarf2 info, it said there were
120k. 
So something isn't adding up here. 
I find it hard to believe we duplicate that much info.
It's pretty much absurd.
--Dan

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Stan Shebs wrote:

> Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > 
> > Funny you guys bring up the number of types in GDB.
> > According to the debug info, there are >82,000.
> > How exactly are we counting them, again?
> 
> Since GDB sources are around 400K lines or so, it's highly unlikely
> that there is a type definition for every five lines in the
> C sources.  You're seeing duplicates in the debug info, presumably.
> 
> Stan
>