Re: [PATCH] Objective-C language support.

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

this has already been checked in
2002-10-18  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>

        * stabsread.c (find_name_end): New function.
        (define_symbol): Use it.

Elena


Jim Blandy writes:
 > 
 > Looks good to me.
 > 
 > Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Jim Blandy wrote:
 > > > The function stabsread_objc_colon should be static to stabsread.c, no?
 > > > If that's so, then it should be renamed to something like
 > > > `find_name_end', with a comment above the strchr ('[') != 0 case
 > > > explaining its relevance to Objective-C.  Since this function gets
 > > > called on every symbol, it's not an Objective-C specific function;
 > > > only part of it is.
 > > > The code needs a comment.  Most of GDB's maintainers don't know
 > > > Objective-C, so it would be helpful just to say something like,
 > > > "Objective-C symbols can have names like -[foo:bar:baz]:skun
 > > 
 > > Updated patch:
 > > 
 > > 2002-10-14  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>
 > > 
 > > 	* stabsread.c (find_name_end): New function.
 > > 	(define_symbol): Use it.
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > -- 
 > > Adam Fedor, Digital Optics Corp.      | I'm glad I hate spinach, because
 > > http://www.doc.com                    | if I didn't, I'd eat it, and you
 > >                                        | know how I hate the stuff.
 > > Index: stabsread.c
 > > ===================================================================
 > > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/stabsread.c,v
 > > retrieving revision 1.42
 > > diff -u -p -r1.42 stabsread.c
 > > --- stabsread.c	11 Oct 2002 14:02:38 -0000	1.42
 > > +++ stabsread.c	15 Oct 2002 03:06:03 -0000
 > > @@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ static int
 > >  read_cfront_member_functions (struct field_info *, char **,
 > >  			      struct type *, struct objfile *);
 > >  
 > > +static char *find_name_end (char *name);
 > > +
 > >  /* end new functions added for cfront support */
 > >  
 > >  static void
 > > @@ -1271,7 +1273,7 @@ define_symbol (CORE_ADDR valu, char *str
 > >  	       struct objfile *objfile)
 > >  {
 > >    register struct symbol *sym;
 > > -  char *p = (char *) strchr (string, ':');
 > > +  char *p = (char *) find_name_end (string);
 > >    int deftype;
 > >    int synonym = 0;
 > >    register int i;
 > > @@ -2004,7 +2006,8 @@ define_symbol (CORE_ADDR valu, char *str
 > >           a typedef for "foo".  Unfortunately, cfront never makes the typedef
 > >           when translating C++ into C.  We make the typedef here so that
 > >           "ptype foo" works as expected for cfront translated code.  */
 > > -      else if (current_subfile->language == language_cplus)
 > > +      else if ((current_subfile->language == language_cplus)
 > > +	       || (current_subfile->language == language_objc))
 > >  	synonym = 1;
 > >  
 > >        SYMBOL_TYPE (sym) = read_type (&p, objfile);
 > > @@ -5613,6 +5616,32 @@ finish_global_stabs (struct objfile *obj
 > >        patch_block_stabs (global_symbols, global_stabs, objfile);
 > >        xfree (global_stabs);
 > >        global_stabs = NULL;
 > > +    }
 > > +}
 > > +
 > > +static char *
 > > +find_name_end (char *name)
 > > +{
 > > +  char *s = name;
 > > +  /* Find the end of the name, deliminated by a ':', but don't match
 > > +     ObjC symbols which look like -[Foo bar::]:bla.  */
 > > +  if (s[0] == '-' || *s == '+')
 > > +    {
 > > +      /* Must be an ObjC method symbol.  */
 > > +      if (s[1] != '[')
 > > +	{
 > > +	  error ("invalid symbol name \"%s\"", name);
 > > +	}
 > > +      s = strchr (s, ']');
 > > +      if (s == NULL)
 > > +	{
 > > +	  error ("invalid symbol name \"%s\"", name);
 > > +	}
 > > +      return strchr (s, ':');
 > > +    }
 > > +  else
 > > +    {
 > > +      return strchr (s, ':');
 > >      }
 > >  }
 > >