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Re: [RFC] Special casing dtors?
- From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- To: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:23:26 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Special casing dtors?
- References: <49CAB139.8010100@redhat.com>
Keith Seitz wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking a bit at a patch (in Fedora) which fixes prms/1112,
and I notice that both valops.c and linespec.c treat destructors as
"special case"s -- but nowhere does it say WHY.
I've searched through all the history I can find about this (including
the Cygnus internal ueberbaum), and all I've been able to discover is
that this has been in a LONG time (before 1990).
1980s C++ was rather a different language from today, and G++ was even
more different, so it could easily have been something that made sense
for 1.x and not anything later.
Stan