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symtab/1332: Deprecate sym_private data in objfiles


>Number:         1332
>Category:       symtab
>Synopsis:       Deprecate sym_private data in objfiles
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          maintenance
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 12 19:48:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     ac131313@redhat.com
>Release:        unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
Elena writes:

Mark Kettenis writes:
 > This patch adds a per-objfile data mechanism to GDB, and uses that to
 > store DWARF2 frame info instead of abusing objfile->sym_private.  The
 > latter could lead to problems on certain platforms according to
 > Daniel.

yes, xcoffread and coffread heavily rely on the sym_private field.

 > 
 > Comments?  OK to check this in?  Do we want this on the release branch
 > too?
 > 

Seems ok. I really like the idea of getting rid of the other *_private
and stab only data stuff. 

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