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Re: [RFA/commit/dwarf] Create partial symbols for nested subprograms

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:00:18 -0700
Subject: Re: [RFA/commit/dwarf] Create partial symbols for nested subprograms
References: <20080910201959.GC10133@adacore.com> <20080910203437.GA26162@caradoc.them.org> <m3hc8n65td.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> Daniel> Not that I see any useful way around it, if subprograms really
> Daniel> can be children of lexical blocks.
> 
> Can we do it only for languages where we know this can occur?
> IOW, Ada?

That's what I was going to propose, but I wanted to do some measurement
too (tomorrow). Nested subprograms are possible in C, and aren't they
also available in C++? I don't mind supporting this only in Ada, though.

-- 
Joel

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