Re: [RFA]: Fix partial symbol lookups

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Berlin wrote:

> Correct.
> But this never worked since 1994 anyway, since psymbols have no
> demangled name in them.
> :)

Good catch!  I too remember the comments that imply that
mangled names are in there, and have assumed they were true.

> 
> I also corrected lookup_partial_symbol to binary search the global
> table, regardless of language, since this is the part that had led me
> to believe it had demangled names in it in the first place. 

Are you SURE that NO language puts mangled names in?
If so, then this should be a big improvement.

> Since we
> only have a sorted list of mangled names in the global list, there is
> no reason to linear search it, ever.
> Statics still aren't sorted, so we linear search those.

Hmmm -- so why not sort the statics?