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Re: PR c++/19406


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:13:48 -0800, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:

> Basically, I think it's wrong to try to emit just one field of a class.
> If we need a field for some reason, then we need the entire class to put
> it in proper context.

The idea of this optimization is that we will emit the entire class in some
file, but in others just emit enough of a husk to emit the defined member.
This husk is marked incomplete, so the debugger knows to look elsewhere for
the full definition of the class.

Jason


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