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Re: [PATCH 0/6] [PR 17684] Look up primitive types as symbols
- From: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- To: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:18:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] [PR 17684] Look up primitive types as symbols
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is a follow-on to
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-12/msg00169.html
> and implements the looking up of primitive types at the
> appropriate time in the symbol lookup machinery.
> Namely, after the STATIC_BLOCK of the current compunit has been searched
> and before anything else.
>
> The main piece is allowing symbols to be "owned" by gdbarch,
> just like types are.
>
> The patch is in six parts:
>
> 1) new functions symbol_arch, symbol_symtab, symbol_objfile, symbol_set_symtab
> 2) lookup_symbol_nonlocal routines get langdef parameter
> 3) rename initialize_symbol -> initialize_objfile_symbol
> 4) new macro SYMBOL_DOMAIN_BITS
> 5) basic support for looking up primitive types as symbols
> 6) c++ support
>
> This patch requires the cp-namespace.c cleanup patchset:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-12/msg00364.html
Hi. fyi,
I have committed this series.