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From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Live Range Splitting goodbye?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206220045540.4017-100000@dberlin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <npptykccjr.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>

On 21 Jun 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> 
> Would anyone mind if I deleted the support for live range splitting?
> That would remove the following fields from struct symbol, get rid of
> a weird call to read_pc in symtab.c (!!), and a bunch of other stuff.

I asked a few months ago, and no one ever answered when I asked.

> 
> I believe the GCC code which would emit the sorts of STABS that turn
> into these structures has never been contributed to the public sources
> anyway.
Correct.

> 
> struct symbol
>   {
>     ...
> 
>     /* Link to a list of aliases for this symbol.
>        Only a "primary/main symbol may have aliases.  */
>     struct alias_list *aliases;
> 
>     /* List of ranges where this symbol is active.  This is only
>        used by alias symbols at the current time.  */
>     struct range_list *ranges;
>   };
> 
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-22  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-21 18:44 Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 19:13 ` Elena Zannoni
2002-06-21 20:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 21:46 ` Daniel Berlin [this message]
2002-06-26 12:22   ` Jim Blandy

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