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Re: [rfc] lookups with natural/linkage names
- From: "Paul N. Hilfinger" <hilfingr at otisco dot mckusick dot com>
- To: carlton at bactrian dot org
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, ezannoni at redhat dot com, jimb at redhat dot com, drow at mvista dot com
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 01:11:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: [rfc] lookups with natural/linkage names
- References: <m3iss12pj5.fsf@papaya.bactrian.org>
- Reply-to: Hilfinger at otisco dot mckusick dot com
> * Add a function
> struct symbol *lookup_symbol_linkage (const char *name);
> that looks up the symbol whose linkage name is NAME. It only looks
> up global or static symbols (with preference to the former), and
> only looks up symbols in VAR_DOMAIN; it doesn't apply any
> language-specific rules. This will, for example, give us a reliable
> way to find the symbol associated to a minsym, no matter how
> complicated C++ lookup rules make things.
David,
What exactly is the reasoning that says that such lookups needn't consider
local (or rather non-static/global) symbols?
Paul