Re: RFA: Split linespec from symtab

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>]

Fernando Nasser writes:
 > 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.

Ok with me.

 > 
 > > 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?
 > 

Yep. Go ahead.

Elena