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Re: [RFA/DWARF2] Fallback unknown language to C


On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:44:15PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I am hearing the first rumors of 5.4, I think it would be nice to have
> the following change in. It's a followup on a remark made in this
> message:
> 
>     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-02/msg00533.html
> 
> (GDB does not work very well when the language is unknown)
> 
> 2003-03-11  J. Brobecker  <brobecker at gnat dot com>
> 
>         * dwarf2read.c (set_cu_language): Fall the language back to C
>         if it is unsupported.
> 
> Ok to commit?

I agree with the remark, but not the method.  Does anyone see an
advantage to the unk_* methods calling error() instead of silently
defaulting to the C versions?  That seems more appropriate to me.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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