C++ Typedefs and symbol tables

[Andrew STUBBS]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Check whether you are ending up with a search based on the function's
> symbol or minsym.  The mangled name always uses the canonical type
> name (for obvious ABI reasons).

Symbol or minsym? Sorry, I'm not at all familiar with this area of the 
debugger.

> Yes, but it's a lot of work.  We can not currently canonicalize
> anything during lookup because we do not canonicalize during symbol
> reading; and just turning that on slows things down considerably.  The
> cp-names.y parser was intended for exactly this.

Surely converting the (typically) 2-3 typenames in a signature, such 
that they match the canonical form used by the ABI, would not take much 
time, would it?

I can believe that any task in this area would require depressing 
amounts of infrastructure work, though. :(

Oh well, just an idea.

Andrew