[rfa] always use demangled name to set scope
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Fri Jun 13 18:56:00 GMT 2003
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:53:42AM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:38:34 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:28:13PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
>
> >> Yeah, but we need DW_TAG_namespace to do [nested type deduction],
> >> and a version of GCC providing that probably won't be released
> >> until next calendar year. I certainly don't use demangled names to
> >> do nested type deduction if we have DW_TAG_namespace, but I do
> >> think it will be important for the next two or three years.
>
> > That's namespace deduction. Nested type deduction is a slightly
> > different story - the principle is the same but we already have all
> > the information we need.
>
> Not if the type is nested inside a namespace. If your code is full of
Violent agreement again. I'm using the words differently from you; I
was strictly speaking about
class C {
class D {
..
};
};
> namespace N {
> class C {
> ...
> };
> }
>
> then, as far as I can tell, you can't tell that C is really N::C
> without either DW_TAG_namespace or demangled names. And if you think
> it's C, then users get confused if they refer to it as N::C and
> nothing happens, and you get constant RTTI warnings when printing out
> stuff. (Which, besides being annoying, make ddd impossible to use,
> which matters to some people.)
Yes, all definitely true.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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