Re: Tasks

[Sami Wagiaalla <swagiaal at redhat dot com>]

> * Expression parsing.
>
>   I think the first thing here is a good look at what we should aim to
>   do.  Should we try to fix bugs?  Or try for the full implementation?
>   Or both in parallel?  If we're fixing bugs, what kind of thing are
>   we unlikely to be able to fix?  If the full implementation, how big
>   a job is that really?  In both cases, what dependencies do we have
>   on gcc?
>
>   This is probably the single biggest item.
>   Maybe a couple people should look at this..?

This looks pretty interesting... any one else interested ?

As a first step we can look through bugzilla and mailing list to see 
what bugs have been filed in this area and are still open. That will 
give us a feel for whether we should do a full implementation or fix bugs.

The problem as I see it can be devided to:
- Correct parsing and lexing of an expression
- Correct lookup using c++ scoping rules
- Correct location expression evaluation

I am looking at fixing this bug as an exercise: 
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-01/msg00117.html

Sami