Re: [rfa] add 'parent' field to struct die_info

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Jim Blandy writes:
 > 
 > Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:
 > > Each debugging information entry is defined either to have child
 > > entries or not to have child entries. If an entry is defined not to
 > > have children, the next physically succeeding entry is a sibling. If
 > > an entry is defined to have children, the next physically succeeding
 > > entry is its first child. Additional children are represented as
 > > siblings of the first child. A chain of sibling entries is terminated
 > > by a null entry.
 > 
 > Sure, that sort of explanation would be appropriate for the die
 > reading code, but I think it would just be confusing for 'struct
 > die_info'.  Once we've built the die tree in memory, all that detail
 > is gone, and you've just got the pure tree structure.  There's no
 > concept of "the next physically succeeding entry", for example.

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