From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19287 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2002 04:46:40 -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 19258 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2002 04:46:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.dberlin.org) (138.88.46.205) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 2002 04:46:34 -0000 Received: by www.dberlin.org (Postfix, from userid 503) id 77E38184CE2A; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 00:46:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by www.dberlin.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C264D184CE29; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 00:46:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:46:00 -0000 From: Daniel Berlin To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Live Range Splitting goodbye? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_NOT_PRESENT,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK,NO_MX_FOR_FROM, AWL version=2.30 X-Spam-Level: X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00195.txt.bz2 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; > }; > >