Re: [rfa/intercu] Preserve DIE types

[Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:25:14AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > > The only solution I could find was to cache this information, specifically
> > > the DIE -> type mapping.
> > 
> > I think that's the only correct thing to do.
> > 
> > > Tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu.  OK?
> > 
> > It looks fine.  Just one question: in set_die_type, why do you check
> > whether cu->per_cu is NULL?  Under what circumstances would we be
> > associating types to dies in a compilation unit that is not considered
> > "read in"?
> 
> cu->per_cu != NULL is the flag which indicates that we've seen an
> inter-compilation-unit reference.  If we haven't, then we'll read in
> this compilation unit but discard it completely when we're done with
> it.

Okay, that's right --- based on the forms we see used in the abbrev
table.  Thanks.  All good, then.