From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5173 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2002 15:42:41 -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 5165 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2002 15:42:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Aug 2002 15:42:40 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7NFgeU02788; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:42:40 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: gdb Subject: adding namespace support to GDB Cc: carlton@math.stanford.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: David Carlton Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00289.txt.bz2 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