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Re: [patch] some mindless additions of BLOCK_ macros
- From: David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 23 Oct 2002 16:19:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] some mindless additions of BLOCK_ macros
- References: <ro165vs4zzf.fsf@jackfruit.Stanford.EDU><3DB72AE4.1040908@redhat.com>
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:04:04 -0400, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:
>> I recently noticed that the BLOCK_ macros weren't used everywhere
>> they could be. I know Andrew doesn't like macros, but given that
>> these ones are used almost everywhere, they might as well be used
>> everywhere.
> Yep.
> It's more that I like opaque types - it is all about `control' -
> with an opaque type it simply isn't possible to sneak in [old] code
> that grubs around in the internals. You could consider block.[hc]?
Opaque types are good, no question about that. Some of the macros in
symtab.h are also places where polymorphism would be helpful (c.f. the
recent INIT_DEMANGLED_NAME stuff), but I don't think people would be
too open to starting to rewrite parts of GDB in C++ just yet...
Actually, the reason why I discovered some of these places was because
I did create block.h on carlton_dictionary-branch: I got sick of
having to recompile most of GDB every time I tried to fiddle with
struct block, so I split out struct block and struct blockvector.
(But I haven't created block.c, largely because there's only two
function prototypes that seem to clearly belong in block.h.) I posted
an RFC for splitting up symtab.h a few weeks ago, which got a tepid
response; if I decide that I like having a separate block.h, I'll
probably test the waters again in a month or so and see if I can get
approval for it on the mainline as well. (And maybe eventually split
out other parts of symtab.h later; who knows.)
>> This patch seems obvious to me; if nobody complains, I'll commit it
>> in a day or two.
> I think its safe for today.
Okay, I'll do it when I have a moment.
David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu