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Re: Another Issue for 5.0
- To: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- Subject: Re: Another Issue for 5.0
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:40:54 -0800
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Core Tools, Apple Computer
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002170818250.24672-100000@propylaea.anduin.com>
- Reply-To: shebs at apple dot com
Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> IMHO, the overload resolution for DWARF2/STABS/all non-hp platforms should
> really be fixed for 5.0.
> I have patches to do this (in fact, i'm about to send another jumbo patch
> to gdb-patches with it all combined so i don't have to keep emailing it to
> people :P), with no regressions, well, actually, that's not true.
> Some overload resolution things that were xfail before in the testsuite
> now pass.
> Sorry about that. I'll try to make sure i keep the broken things broken in
> the future. :P
:-)
> But, anyway, i get about 5-10 emails a week asking for those patches.
> Even on HP using aCC, where overload resolution works, you get benefits
> because i added support for references in overloads, and fixed a problem
> where the compares against function names were whitespace sensitive where
> they shouldn't have been (so operator [] would be considered the same
> function as operator[] when we were hunting down overloads).
This all sounds great! Are there any obstacles to just installing the
patches?
Stan