[RFC] pascal: Add lowercase copy of symbol name
Joel Brobecker
brobecker@adacore.com
Thu Apr 29 22:32:00 GMT 2010
> Here is a step in that direction: adding a new pascal_specific field
> for general_symbol_info structure, fill it with a lowercase copy of
> the symbol name and use that lowercase copy for searches if
> case_sensitivityy is off.
>
> I did not yet really decide exactly how I am going to use this
> inside that pascal expression parser. One idea would be to first
> try an exact match, and if that fails, try again forcing
> case_sensitivity to off temporarily.
>
> Comments?
I can't really say that I am fond of this approach - at all. We already
store the linkage name as well as the natural name. Can't you use that
in the language-specific lookup routines to make the search case
insensitive?
There is also something I'm confused about: If Pascal is *not* case-
sensitive, why make the debugger optionally case-sensitive? Why not
always have a case-insensitive interpreter? You aluded that there were
some reasons...
--
Joel
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