Status of c++ branches?

Status of c++ branches?

[Elena Zannoni]

David, I am just curious, what is the status of your branch?  Did you
abandon development on it?  Is DanielJ's the active one?  When I am
going to start looking at that, I don't want to look at the wrong
branch.

Thanks
Elena

Re: Status of c++ branches?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:23:54PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> 
> David, I am just curious, what is the status of your branch?  Did you
> abandon development on it?  Is DanielJ's the active one?  When I am
> going to start looking at that, I don't want to look at the wrong
> branch.

David's is still active, and then he's merging pieces onto mine from
time to time; I'm attacking the problem from a different direction. 
I'll be merging C++ bits from my branch back in as I find time (which
hasn't been often, recently).

David is working directly on namespace support; I'm working on some
more general C++ problems.  Template class naming is probably next.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: Status of c++ branches?

[David Carlton]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:20:01 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:23:54PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:

>> David, I am just curious, what is the status of your branch?  Did you
>> abandon development on it?  Is DanielJ's the active one?  When I am
>> going to start looking at that, I don't want to look at the wrong
>> branch.

> David's is still active, and then he's merging pieces onto mine from
> time to time

Right.  There's stuff on mine that I think is probably a good idea
eventually but that isn't giving any concrete benefits right now.  For
example, I've moved the symbol storage parts of blocks into a separate
structure on my branch, and I spent the last week rewriting
decode_line_1 on my branch.  Both of these might be good ideas
eventually, but they're not directly improving GDB's C++ behavior yet,
so I haven't merged them to Daniel's branch yet.

Having said that, even the stuff I've merged into Daniel's branch
isn't ready for the mainline yet: some of the data structures will
definitely change.  I move something over to his branch if it handles
a case that GDB can't handle currently, and does it in a reasonably
coherent fashion, but C++'s rules are complicated enough that it'll
take a while for the data structures to settle down.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu

Re: Status of c++ branches?

[Elena Zannoni]

David Carlton writes:
 > On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:20:01 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
 > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:23:54PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > 
 > >> David, I am just curious, what is the status of your branch?  Did you
 > >> abandon development on it?  Is DanielJ's the active one?  When I am
 > >> going to start looking at that, I don't want to look at the wrong
 > >> branch.
 > 
 > > David's is still active, and then he's merging pieces onto mine from
 > > time to time
 > 
 > Right.  There's stuff on mine that I think is probably a good idea
 > eventually but that isn't giving any concrete benefits right now.  For
 > example, I've moved the symbol storage parts of blocks into a separate
 > structure on my branch, and I spent the last week rewriting
 > decode_line_1 on my branch.  Both of these might be good ideas
 > eventually, but they're not directly improving GDB's C++ behavior yet,
 > so I haven't merged them to Daniel's branch yet.
 > 
 > Having said that, even the stuff I've merged into Daniel's branch
 > isn't ready for the mainline yet: some of the data structures will
 > definitely change.  I move something over to his branch if it handles
 > a case that GDB can't handle currently, and does it in a reasonably
 > coherent fashion, but C++'s rules are complicated enough that it'll
 > take a while for the data structures to settle down.
 > 

Ok, thanks for explaining.

Elena


 > David Carlton
 > carlton@math.stanford.edu