Re: adding namespace support to GDB

[Petr Sorfa <petrs at caldera dot com>]

Hi Daniel,

Well, let me or John Wolfe submit a patch with the imported declaration
support next week. It will at least be some kind of comparison.

Petr
> > In article <3D6677D3.6E84743C@caldera.com>, Petr Sorfa
> > <petrs@caldera.com> writes:
> >
> > > Well to help things along I will be submitting a DWARF patch that
> > > will supported imported declarations which are essential for FORTRAN
> > > modules and C++ namespaces.
> >
> > Great, I look forward to reading it.
> >
> > > This is essential for the "using" commands in either language (of
> > > course the compiler needs to generate the correct DWARF
> > > ;o)).
> >
> > Yes, well, there is always that.
> 
> This is easy, i've had patches to do it forever, that are already
> approved.
> I'm just waiting for gdb to get around to namespace support before
> committing them, because it turns out we don't want to add a -gdwarf-3
> switch.
>  >  Certainly it seems like a solution
> > for C++ will initially have to get recreate namespace info from
> > DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name, and there's no way that we'll be able to
> > allow users to use symbol names as if all the appropriate using
> > directives were in effect, since that information simply isn't in the
> > debug information that GCC is currently producing.  (Though that's not
> > the end of the world: we should be able to do name lookup using C++'s
> > name resolution rules based on the enclosing function and its
> > arguments, presumably.)
> >
> > David Carlton
> > carlton@math.stanford.edu
> >
> >