[symbols] Do we need language_specific?

Adam Fedor fedor@doc.com
Mon Jan 27 02:59:00 GMT 2003


On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 03:33 PM, 
gdb-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:

> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
 >Right now, C++ and Java use cplus_specific, which contains only the
 >demangled name.  Objc uses objc_specific, which contains only the 
demangled
 >name.  And one of the members is always present anyway since the union 
is
 >directly in general_symbol_info.

I remember noticing this also when I submitted the ObjC patch. But I 
though I'd just go along with the crowd and do the same thing for ObjC, 
even though I could have used cplus_specific. So AFAIK you can get rid 
of it.



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