RFC: partial symbol table address range generalization

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jim Blandy wrote:

> I'd like to change GDB's `struct partial_symtab' structure to cover an
> arbitrary set of addresses, not just a single contiguous span of
> addresses.  I've written code for a `struct addrset' datatype
> (essentially a linked list of ranges) and provided some functions to
> make it easy and robust to work with.  I'd like to gradually wean the
> partial symbol table code away from the textlow/texthigh
> representation, and have it use an addrset to represent a partial
> symbol table's coverage.

Please consider writing something about this for gdbint.texinfo,
eventually.  The GDB symbol table facilities and algorithms are
notoriously underdocumented at the moment, IMHO.

TIA