Re: [RFA/stabs reader] Fix v3 duplicate constructors problem

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:22:14PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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> > I tracked down the annoying duplication of constructors using G++ 3.0 with
> > stabs.  The problem is that all the clones of the constructor are emitted,
> > so there really are two of them.
> >
> Yes.
> > The obvious thing to do to fix this in GCC (and I'd like it fixed in GCC)
> > would seem to be checking DECL_ABSTRACT_ORIGIN like the Dwarf frontend does
> > instead of DECL_ABSTRACT.
> It *used* to do the right thing (IE after the v3 switch)
> Which is to emit a single constructor name in the class, and emit the
> clones outside the class debug info, with an abstract origin/specification
> of the in the class die.
> 
> Does it not still do this?

It does for Dwarf2.  This particular problem does not affect Dwarf2. 
Dies don't come into this anywhere.

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