Re: [PATCH][C++] Fix PR29433, make C++ use a lot less time/memory

[Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> No way, please don't do this.  DW_AT_name is supposed to be the type 
> name from the source language.
> 
> 14 Identifier Names
> 
> Any debugging information entry representing a program entity that has
> been given a name may have a DW_AT_name attribute, whose value is a
> string representing the name as it appears in the source program.

Meanwhile it seems people downthread came to a preferred solution (listing 
template args explicitely).  I'm not sure how sensible that is given 
testcases like in PR29433 (the debug info will still be HUGE and basically 
useless) but we probably don't gain that capability immediately.  So, do 
people really think that until then we should continue to output multi-MB 
strings which no sane person is interested to look at in a debugger anyway 
just for sake of a weakly defined specification until we gain that 
possibility?


Ciao,
Michael.