Re: RFA: Split linespec from symtab

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Elena Zannoni wrote:
> 
> Fernando, this is OK with me.
> 2 things though:
> 
> 1. Who's going to maintain this file?
>    I am asking because there are some patches pending from Dan, and I
>    don't want those to fall through the cracks. Maybe I can be a
>    co-maintainer?
> 

I believe this is an interface between GDB's symbolic services and the
interpreters (both command line and GUI) which use it.

If Andrew does not object, I believe the maintainers of symtab.c (Jim and Elena)
should be responsible for this file with perhaps the addition of myself as a
CLI/GUI representative.

> 2. Some C++ specific functions will be moved to linespec.c to which they
>    don't really belong, just as they didn't belong to symtab.c.
>    So at some stage the c++ functions may be further separated, into
>    their own files. But this is not a problem, I would think. Maybe
>    add a comment to that effect in linespec.c.
> 

Good move.  I had noticed that and I agree with it (I even mentioned one of these
functions in my submission).

But I rather add the comments afterwards so this patch shows just the
unchanged movement of code, for documentation purposes.
We add the FIXMEs in a separate commit.  Is that OK?

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