carlton_dictionary-branch

[David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>]

I've created a new branch off of the GDB sources, called
carlton_dictionary-branch.  This will be a place where I can play
around with updating the way symbol lookup happens (with the eventual
goal of adding proper C++ namespace support), shielded from the
piercing eyes of the symbol table maintainers.

Anybody should feel free to play around with it:

  cvs -d :ext:USERNAME@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src co -r \
     carlton_dictionary-branch gdb+dejagnu

should do the trick.  I'll try to leave GDB in a working state
whenever I check in stuff.  In particular, if anybody feels moved to
help me with this effort, that would be great; write away all you
want.  Initially, I'm just going to be refactoring the existing
'symbol lookup in block' code and perhaps doing a particularly naive
refactoring of the global symbol lookup code, but once that naive
refactoring of the global symbol lookup code is completed, it should
be in a state where anybody can help optimize it.

I plan to sync with mainline perhaps once a week; who knows, though.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu