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Re: Status of c++ branches?
David Carlton writes:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:20:01 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:23:54PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>
> >> David, I am just curious, what is the status of your branch? Did you
> >> abandon development on it? Is DanielJ's the active one? When I am
> >> going to start looking at that, I don't want to look at the wrong
> >> branch.
>
> > David's is still active, and then he's merging pieces onto mine from
> > time to time
>
> Right. There's stuff on mine that I think is probably a good idea
> eventually but that isn't giving any concrete benefits right now. For
> example, I've moved the symbol storage parts of blocks into a separate
> structure on my branch, and I spent the last week rewriting
> decode_line_1 on my branch. Both of these might be good ideas
> eventually, but they're not directly improving GDB's C++ behavior yet,
> so I haven't merged them to Daniel's branch yet.
>
> Having said that, even the stuff I've merged into Daniel's branch
> isn't ready for the mainline yet: some of the data structures will
> definitely change. I move something over to his branch if it handles
> a case that GDB can't handle currently, and does it in a reasonably
> coherent fashion, but C++'s rules are complicated enough that it'll
> take a while for the data structures to settle down.
>
Ok, thanks for explaining.
Elena
> David Carlton
> carlton@math.stanford.edu