Live Range Splitting goodbye?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:44:24PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Would anyone mind if I deleted the support for live range splitting?
> That would remove the following fields from struct symbol, get rid of
> a weird call to read_pc in symtab.c (!!), and a bunch of other stuff.
> 
> I believe the GCC code which would emit the sorts of STABS that turn
> into these structures has never been contributed to the public sources
> anyway.
> 
> struct symbol
>   {
>     ...
> 
>     /* Link to a list of aliases for this symbol.
>        Only a "primary/main symbol may have aliases.  */
>     struct alias_list *aliases;
> 
>     /* List of ranges where this symbol is active.  This is only
>        used by alias symbols at the current time.  */
>     struct range_list *ranges;
>   };

Right on all counts.  Please, go ahead!

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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