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Re: [RFA]: Java Inferior Call Take 2
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:05:57PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> > The other question: I looked at fixing the debug info to print field
> > names correctly. The reason it's wrong is that dwarf2out uses the
> > decl_printable_name langhook. Java doesn't use the second argument,
> > which the common code assumes is verbosity. Common code always passes
> > '2', which matches what Java's does, except in three places: mudflap
> > (???), the C tree pretty printer, and this call in dwarf2out used to
> > set the name of decls. Java mostly passes 0 since it knows the value
> > is ignored. Any reason not to fix up the Java frontend to pass 2,
> > extend the function to handle smaller values, and thus correct the
> > debug output?
>
> Yes, I can do that.
Great - it'll probably take you a lot less time than it would take me
:) If you can take care of this, I'll make sure GDB still behaves
correctly.
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Daniel Jacobowitz