Re: Another Issue for 5.0

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> IMHO, the overload resolution for DWARF2/STABS/all non-hp platforms should
> really be fixed for 5.0.
> I have patches to do this (in fact, i'm about to send another jumbo patch
> to gdb-patches with it all combined so i don't have to keep emailing it to
> people :P), with no regressions, well, actually, that's not true.
> Some overload resolution things that were xfail before in the testsuite
> now pass.
> Sorry about that. I'll try to make sure i keep the broken things broken in
> the future. :P

:-)

> But, anyway, i get about 5-10 emails a week asking for those patches.
> Even on HP using aCC, where overload resolution works, you get benefits
> because i added support for references in overloads, and fixed a problem
> where the compares against function names were whitespace sensitive where
> they shouldn't have been (so operator [] would be considered the same
> function as operator[] when we were hunting down overloads).

This all sounds great!  Are there any obstacles to just installing the
patches?

Stan