This is the mail archive of the gdb@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the GDB project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: C++ nested classes, namespaces, structs, and compound statements


On 10 Apr 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> 
> Petr Sorfa <petrs@caldera.com> writes:
> > I've implemented FORTRAN95 MODULE support which is essentially
> > equivalent to namespaces (except you cannot have nested MODULEs.) I
> > treat it internally as a static class. For scoping issues I simply add
> > (in DWARF) the current local symbols to the MODULE to the local symbols
> > of the PROGRAM, CONTAINS, SUBROUTINE and FUNCTION scopes. A similar kind
> > of approach will allow nested C++ namespaces (flame bait comment.)
> 
> I'm not sure I understand your implementation.  (And I'm sure I don't
> understand FORTRAN...)  So, when some program construct imports a
> module, you actually repeat the declarations for the imported module's
> contents in the debug info for the importing construct?
> 

And if so, isn't the memory usage absurd for large programs?



Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]