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Re: dwarves, hierarchies, and cross-references
On Sat, 10 May 2003 15:01:08 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:14:18PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
>> * When parsing E via a cross-reference, figure out its context, so we
>> can name it correctly. This seems like a plausible idea to me; I'm
>> only worried that it might be a little inefficient at times.
> Yes. We already read in the whole CU at a time and build the DIE
> structure in memory, and then walk the DIE structure to build types.
> All we have to do is increase the memory usage of the DIEs slightly by
> adding a backchain up the hierarchy. A simliar thing works for
> inter-CU references. Then we can walk up the chain looking for
> enclosing classes or namespaces, and get their names; and we have a
> DIE->name convertor.
All right, that's what I've done; it wasn't too bad. I'll check it
into my branch and post patches in a bit, for benefit of the curious.
David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu