Fixes for this are in progress on drow-cplus-branch. All the necessary
code is there, it just needs to be hooked up :) I think I've gotten
derailed on some other problems first, though. The basic problem is
that we want to canonicalize the names before adding them to the symbol
table, and that increases startup time. I'm looking for ways to shave
startup time elsewhere. I have a few ideas.
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- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 14 Jan 2004 23:18:00 -0000
- Subject: Re: c++/1512: no canonical way to output names of C++ types
- Delivery-date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:51:06 -0500
- Envelope-to: cagney@gnu.org
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
The following reply was made to PR c++/1512; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: carlton@bactrian.org
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: c++/1512: no canonical way to output names of C++ types
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:12:13 -0500
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:26:13PM -0000, carlton@bactrian.org wrote:
>
> >Number: 1512
> >Category: c++
> >Synopsis: no canonical way to output names of C++ types
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: unassigned
> >State: open
> >Class: change-request
> >Submitter-Id: net
> >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 14 18:28:00 UTC 2004
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: carlton@bactrian.org
> >Release: 2004-01-14-cvs
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> any
> >Description:
> We currently don't have any canonical way to output
> names of C++ types. E.g. const char * vs.
> char const *; more subtleties arise when dealing with
> templates.
>
> This is, of course, less important than the fact that
> we don't know how to recognize different names
> of types as equivalent when doing input, but it's
> still unfortunate.
Fixes for this are in progress on drow-cplus-branch. All the necessary
code is there, it just needs to be hooked up :) I think I've gotten
derailed on some other problems first, though. The basic problem is
that we want to canonicalize the names before adding them to the symbol
table, and that increases startup time. I'm looking for ways to shave
startup time elsewhere. I have a few ideas.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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