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Re: Live Range Splitting goodbye?
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:12:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: Live Range Splitting goodbye?
- References: <npptykccjr.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Jim Blandy writes:
>
> Would anyone mind if I deleted the support for live range splitting?
> That would remove the following fields from struct symbol, get rid of
> a weird call to read_pc in symtab.c (!!), and a bunch of other stuff.
>
> I believe the GCC code which would emit the sorts of STABS that turn
> into these structures has never been contributed to the public sources
> anyway.
>
> struct symbol
> {
> ...
>
> /* Link to a list of aliases for this symbol.
> Only a "primary/main symbol may have aliases. */
> struct alias_list *aliases;
>
> /* List of ranges where this symbol is active. This is only
> used by alias symbols at the current time. */
> struct range_list *ranges;
> };
Yes it's dead. We already went through this, see the long thread:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-04/msg00002.html
and
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/insight/2002-q2/msg00006.html
Go ahead, kill it.
Thanks
Elena