[RFA] Allow casting of object pointers for method calls

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:05:18PM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> The performance problem is hundreds of timeouts caused by:
> 
>   Reading symbols from /berman/fsf/_today_/berman/native/build/gdb/gdb_5_1-2001-07-29-branch/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/funcargs...Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
>   (gdb) ERROR: couldn't load /berman/fsf/_today_/berman/native/build/gdb/gdb_5_1-2001-07-29-branch/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/funcargs into /berman/fsf/_today_/berman/native/build/gdb/gdb_5_1-2001-07-29-branch/gdb/testsuite/../../gdb/gdb.
> 
> I am going to re-pull, re-build, re-test.

I'm pretty sure that a patch for this was approved on mainline
in November:
  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-11/msg00231.html

You're not going to be able to use 5.1-branch with the output of GCC mainline
unless this is moved to the branch.

The branch is open again, right, Andrew?  If so, this would be a good
candidate.

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