Re: status of DWARF2, namespace support on the compiler side

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>]

>> No, David has patches of mine privately to support namespaces and 
>> using statements (which Mark doesn't want in because it requires 
>> exposing some C++ specific stuff to the common tree stuff. So we won't 
>> have using statements until the C++ front end is cleaned up) that he 
>> has been using to work on/test gdb namespace support.
>> The only thing those patches don't support is using statements in 
>> lexical blocks.
>>
>Correction, the version he has doesn't support using's of overloaded 
>functions and some other special cases, IIRC, which I did finish but 
>haven't sent to him yet.

Any thought of making a gcc branch for this work, like the
carlton_dictionary-branch and drow-cplus-branch tags on the gdb side?

The private patches floating in ether thing can probably be improved, yes?

-benjamin