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Re: [PATCH] Add d_main_name to dlang.c
- From: Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Pierre Muller <pierre dot muller at ics-cnrs dot unistra dot fr>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:53:06 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add d_main_name to dlang.c
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On 3 January 2014 18:18, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> wrote:
> On 19 November 2013 21:03, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Pierre> I thought that in general, using the mangled name
>> Pierre> would allow to find main even if you do not generate
>> Pierre> any debug information, as long as you do not remove the
>> Pierre> assembler symbols from the executable.
>> Pierre> This seems like a valid reason to prefer mangled name
>> Pierre> over demangled, no?
>>
>> The demangled name ends up in the minimal symbol table as well.
>> It's convoluted but it ends up in symbol_find_demangled_name, which has
>> a case for language_d.
>>
>> Tom
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> (I've just realised that I my last reply was not cc'd into gdb-patches)
>
> The assignments should now be processed.
>
> Since November, I've made a few more changes that are reflected in
> this new patch.
>
> I would add some more tests for D, but I feel that should write a
> complete parser for D expressions first (d-exp.y) - this will be done
> at a later date.
>
By the way, would it be best to split this up into smaller changes?
Regards
Iain.