Re: adding namespace support to GDB

[Petr Sorfa <petrs@caldera.com>]

Hi David,

Well to help things along I will be submitting a DWARF patch that will
supported imported declarations which are essential for FORTRAN modules
and C++ namespaces. This is essential for the "using" commands in either
language (of course the compiler needs to generate the correct DWARF
;o)).

I'm making some changes to my TAG_module patch which hopefully will get
it accepted.

C++ namespaces are fairly similar to FORTRAN modules, except FORTRAN95
seems to have a more powerful "using" command (ability to rename
imported symbols), and C++ a more flexible use of namespaces.

Both the patches for modules and imported declarations will be submitted
early next week.

Petr
> I recently asked Daniel Jacobwitz for suggestions as to what I could
> do to help GDB, and he suggested that I might try adding proper
> namespace support.  I've skimmed a thread on the issue from early
> April with lots of interesting ideas; at some point, it sounded like
> Jim Blandy was about to start writing up some concrete possible
> interfaces, and I was wondering if anything more came of that.
> 
> For the time being, I'm going to reread that thread more closely, look
> at Petr Sorfa's module patch, look at the DWARF-3 standard, look at
> existing GDB code, and think about this for a while.  (Or at least I
> hope that's what I'm going to do: maybe I'll instead spend all of my
> time arguing with Stanford's benefits office.  Anybody know of any
> interesting free software jobs in countries with nationalized health
> insurance?)  But I don't want to duplicate effort if somebody else has
> already started working on this.
> 
> David Carlton
> carlton@math.stanford.edu