Final intermodule patch

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Jul 14 02:11:00 GMT 2003


On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 18:59, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:55:02PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > > AFAIK, *all* debugging formats can handle this.  Otherwise debugging
> > > of current nested functions wouldn't work, nor would printing of 
> > > function-scope static variables.  Since they do...
> > 
> > Only with -g.
> 
> Um, ok, so?

Well, it won't work any more and it used to work before.

If that were the price we had to pay for this feature, it might be worth
it -- but I believe that there's an alternate implementation technique
that would yield the same upside without this downside.  And would be
more useful for other features we want to add to the compiler at the
same time.

-- 
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
CodeSourcery, LLC



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