[rfc] cp-symtab.c?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:16:15PM -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> David Carlton writes:
>  > Elena and I were recently talking about moving
>  > make_symbol_overload_list and friends from symtab.c to some C++ file.
>  > It's not obvious to me where to put it, though; should I create a new
>  > file "cp-symtab.c" for that?  If so, should I move the parts of
>  > cp-namespace.c that deal specifically with symbol lookup (all the
>  > functions in there with "lookup" in their name, I guess) to that file
>  > as well?  My opinion is that the answer to both questions is "yes",
>  > but I wanted to check with other people first.
>  > 
>  > David Carlton
>  > carlton@math.stanford.edu
> 
> I would hold back on the new file, *for now*. I think cp-support.c
> would work.  Doing a grep for ^lookup_ in *.c throws up too many
> things that are not clearly symbol table related, but for instance
> gdbtypes and charset related. My guess is that the term 'lookup' has
> been abused, and we should introduce something more qualifying in the
> function names.

I agree.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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