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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 11/30] Add two new symbol domains
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:32:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240118-submit-domain-hacks-2-v2-11-aecab29fa104@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240118-submit-domain-hacks-2-v2-0-aecab29fa104@tromey.com>

This adds two new symbol domain constants, TYPE_DOMAIN and
FUNCTION_DOMAIN.

Historically, gdb was a C debugger, and the symbol tables continue to
reflect this.  In particular, symbol domains match the C language,
with VAR_DOMAIN including variables, functions, and types.

However, other languages have other approaches to namespacing.  And,
in any case, it is often useful for other parts of gdb to be able to
distinguish between some domains at lookup time, without resorting to
examining a symbol's location -- in some situations, this sort of
filtering happens too late.

Nothing uses these new domains yet, but the idea behind the patch is
to separate symbols into more domains and then let the
language-specific parts of gdb implement their semantics in terms of
these categories.
---
 gdb/sym-domains.def | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/sym-domains.def b/gdb/sym-domains.def
index 251c66fa04b..cea25a5f5b3 100644
--- a/gdb/sym-domains.def
+++ b/gdb/sym-domains.def
@@ -45,3 +45,12 @@ DOMAIN (LABEL)
 /* Fortran common blocks.  Their naming must be separate from VAR_DOMAIN.
    They also always use LOC_COMMON_BLOCK.  */
 DOMAIN (COMMON_BLOCK)
+
+/* TYPE_DOMAIN is for types and typedefs.  Note that tags are not
+   found here, see STRUCT_DOMAIN above.  */
+
+DOMAIN (TYPE)
+
+/* FUNCTION_DOMAIN is for functions and methods.  */
+
+DOMAIN (FUNCTION)

-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-18 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-18 20:31 [PATCH v2 00/30] Restructure " Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 01/30] Fix bug in cooked index scanner Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 02/30] Small cleanup in DWARF reader Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 03/30] Fix latent bug in DW_TAG_entry_point handling Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 04/30] Make nsalias.exp more reliable Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 05/30] Fix latent bug in mdebugread.c Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 06/30] Give names to unspecified types Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 07/30] Remove NR_DOMAINS Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 08/30] Simplify symbol_to_info_string Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 09/30] Split up a big 'if' in symtab.c Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 10/30] Use a .def file for domain_enum Tom Tromey
2024-01-29 17:57   ` Lancelot SIX
2024-01-29 18:20     ` Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 12/30] Add domain_search_flags Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 13/30] Replace search_domain with domain_search_flags Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 14/30] Remove a check of VAR_DOMAIN Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 15/30] Introduce "scripting" domains Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 16/30] Use domain_search_flags in lookup_global_symbol_language Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 17/30] Use domain_search_flags in lookup_symbol et al Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 18/30] Remove some obsolete Python constants Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 19/30] Remove old symbol_matches_domain Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 20/30] Use the new symbol domains Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 21/30] Simplify some symbol searches in Ada code Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 22/30] Simplify some symbol searches in linespec.c Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 23/30] Only search for "main" as a function Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 24/30] Only look for functions in expand_symtabs_for_function Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 25/30] Use a function-domain search in inside_main_func Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 26/30] Only search types in cp_lookup_rtti_type Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 27/30] Only search types in lookup_typename Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 28/30] Only search for functions in rust_structop::evaluate_funcall Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 29/30] Refine search in cp_search_static_and_baseclasses Tom Tromey
2024-01-18 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 30/30] Document new Python and Guile constants Tom Tromey
2024-01-28 23:42 ` [PATCH v2 00/30] Restructure symbol domains Tom Tromey

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