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Re: [PATCH 00/21] struct symtab split part 2
- From: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:19:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] struct symtab split part 2
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> wrote:
>[...]
> As someone who never quite understood who the symtab mechanism worked in gdb,
> I welcome this change very much It makes the data structure a bit more
> self-descriptive, which in turn helps understanding the algorithms used.
Agreed.
> That lovely ascii art chart makes things very clear, and I would even suggest
> including it somewhere in the code (symtab.h I guess).
Good idea, will do.
> Thanks a lot for your work.
Thanks.