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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] move the "main" data into the per-BFD object
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n5glsst.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22RhAyuuE0wObosYdKFNwsSWAG8iYpPkPggoNxri5Tw4oQ@mail.gmail.com>	(Doug Evans's message of "Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:22:59 -0800")

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> Can I ask for a comment in the code explaining why things are the
Doug> way they are.

Sure.

Doug> (btw, is it written down anywhere that
Doug> ALL_OBJFILES traverses files in load order? If there is such an
Doug> invariant, it would be good for future readers to know).

I don't recall that it is.  It's an effect of how the objfile list is
created.  But IIRC other code depends on this already; but perhaps there
are scenarios where it can be made in another order, I am not certain.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-06 17:11 [PATCH 0/3] main_name cleanups Tom Tromey
2014-01-06 17:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] make language_of_main static Tom Tromey
2014-01-06 17:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] move main name into the progspace Tom Tromey
2014-01-06 17:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] move the "main" data into the per-BFD object Tom Tromey
2014-01-06 17:39   ` Doug Evans
2014-01-06 18:00     ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-06 18:23       ` Doug Evans
2014-01-06 21:11         ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2014-01-13 20:21           ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-06 19:02 ` [PATCH 0/3] main_name cleanups Pedro Alves
2014-01-13 20:31   ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-15 18:01 ` Tom Tromey

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