Re: [PATCH][gdb/testsuite] Support .debug_aranges in dwarf assembly

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

Simon> But doing it this way makes it so that you can only invoke arange when
Simon> you are in aranges' body, isn't that useful?  I guess the downside to
Simon> redefining the proc everytime is performance, but that's really not a
Simon> concern here (it runs quickly enough).

>> To do that, it also have to delete the 'arange' proc after evaluating
>> the body.  I suppose that would be alright by me.

Simon> Really?  This technique is used in proc rnglists, and that doesn't seem
Simon> to cause a problem.

AFAIK Tcl doesn't have any kind of lexical scoping for procs.
So, after "proc arange" is evaluated, the binding stays around.

This contradicts the what you were saying: "you can only invoke arange
when you are in aranges' body".  I think that's not the case, you can
invoke arange any time after any aranges call in the current invocation
of runtest.

I'm not concerned about the performance, I guess.  It's just
un-idiomatic to define a proc in a proc, normally this would only be
used for tricky things like changing a proc body at runtime.  So when I
see this sort of thing, I start looking for the trick.  There's nothing
incorrect, it's just less clear than it could be.

Tom