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Re: Tasks

From: Sami Wagiaalla <swagiaal at redhat dot com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, Project Archer <archer at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:11:38 -0400
Subject: Re: Tasks
References: <m363qtg0ey.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <488E162B.2080301@redhat.com> <489CA001.3020002@redhat.com> <20080808194607.GA8801@caradoc.them.org>

I suggest caution - I've spent probably two months total, scattered
over several years, on the name / linkage name problem.
Coincidentally, I'm about to look at it again; GDB uses linkage names
as a crutch, and they are not available with non-GNU compilers.

This actually brings up a few questions that I have had:

First, what are linkage names used as a crutch for exactly ? Ie what problem can we solve with linkage names that we cant without ?

Also, if I say
(gdb) print SomeNameSpace::SomeClass::SomeSymbol
or
(gdb) break SomeNameSpace::SomeClass::SomeSymbol

does gdb know to search for SomeNameSapce then within that try to find SomeClass, then SomeSymbol ?

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  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: Tasks
  - From: Sami Wagiaalla
- Re: Tasks
  - From: Sami Wagiaalla
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