[RFA] Change build_address_symbolic to return std::string

[Keith Seitz]

Did someone looks this over already?

In any case...

On 05/05/2018 09:24 AM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> This changes two out parameters of build_address_symbolic to be
> std::string, and updates the callers.  This allows removing some
> cleanups.
> 
> This patch also moves the declaration of build_address_symbolic out of
> defs.h.  I think that many things in defs.h should be elsewhere
> instead.  In this case, I moved the declaration to valprint.h, becuase
> there is no "printcmd.h" -- but perhaps it would be better to
> introduce that instead.

That seems reasonable. One small request:

> diff --git a/gdb/valprint.h b/gdb/valprint.h
> index f005c31f87..29053b5028 100644
> --- a/gdb/valprint.h
> +++ b/gdb/valprint.h
> @@ -229,4 +229,13 @@ extern void print_command_parse_format (const char **expp, const char *cmdname,
>  					struct format_data *fmtp);
>  extern void print_value (struct value *val, const struct format_data *fmtp);
>  
> +extern int build_address_symbolic (struct gdbarch *,
> +				   CORE_ADDR addr,
> +				   int do_demangle,
> +				   std::string *name,
> +				   int *offset,
> +				   std::string *filename,
> +				   int *line,
> +				   int *unmapped);
> +
>  #endif

Since you're moving the declaration here, could you please copy the comment from the definition here, too, while you're at it, replacing it with the usual "See XYZ.h"? [Warning: IANAM]

Otherwise, LGTM.

Keith