function pointer stabs (was Re: RFA: MI tests: tolerate prototypes)

Jim Blandy jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com
Fri Feb 8 11:37:00 GMT 2002


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> But the only thing we need that information for AFAIK is curiousity. 
> We don't really need to know if the function was originally prototyped
> if we know how it should be called.

Remember, we can only glean that info from *definitions*.  We don't
have it for function pointers.

> For function TYPES, there's vestigial support for ignoring an os9k
> prototype, but no support for the Sun prototypes.  I stand corrected.
> Should we add this, or write it off?

Oif!  Let's add it.  It can't be that hard.



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