Re: [RFA 0/5] Make cp-name-parser.y a pure parser

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

Hi Tom,

> I've been experimenting a bit with using threads to parallelize
> psymbol reading.
> 
> One difficulty here is that cp-name-parser.y is used by the DWARF
> reader, but is not reentrant.
> 
> It turns out, though, that fixing this is not too difficult.  I had at
> first thought that this would require Bison, but Byacc also supports a
> pure mode.  More details in patch #3.
> 
> Tested by the buildbot.  I'm unaware of whether byacc is used by any
> of the builders, so I also built gdb using byacc for this parser and
> locally ran gdb.cp/*.exp as a smoke test.

I've scanned the patch series, and it looked good to me. But I'm not
a big expert on yacc files, so could you give it a couple of weeks
for others to have a chance to review also? If no comments was sent
by then, go ahead and push.

Thanks,
-- 
Joel