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Re: RFC: fix PR 12707

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:59:49 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Tom> Changing other symbols to include the return type also seems difficult.
> 
> Jan> I do not see why.  There exists no demangled name with the return type
> Jan> anywhere for normal non-template functions.
> 
> I expect it will break expression parsing.

Then it should be fixed but IIRC it works with the linespec parser even
without quotes.


> I think that would require too much memory for what is really a marginal
> feature.

I find it an essential feature to be able to break on function where the
application has crashed, I was using it myself several times for some C++
application (Firefox probably).


Thanks,
Jan
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