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authorElena Zannoni <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>2002-10-23 23:28:17 +0000
committerElena Zannoni <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>2002-10-23 23:28:17 +0000
commit736b5696ab6f8e1932c4089976400322e97d4255 (patch)
tree7eef1dab9bf374c0bcf9e9c41f3649fff782e746 /gdb/symtab.h
parent1c91ab884a6ac1b4d231df2157642d0387f355bc (diff)
downloadgdb-736b5696ab6f8e1932c4089976400322e97d4255.tar.gz
2002-10-23 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
* symtab.h: Update comment.
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diff --git a/gdb/symtab.h b/gdb/symtab.h
index 941a7f12ad2..6c18ccb40af 100644
--- a/gdb/symtab.h
+++ b/gdb/symtab.h
@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ struct general_symbol_info
extern CORE_ADDR symbol_overlayed_address (CORE_ADDR, asection *);
+/* Note that all the following SYMBOL_* macros are used with the
+ SYMBOL argument being either a partial symbol, a minimal symbol or
+ a full symbol. All three types have a ginfo field. In particular
+ the SYMBOL_INIT_LANGUAGE_SPECIFIC, SYMBOL_INIT_DEMANGLED_NAME,
+ SYMBOL_DEMANGLED_NAME macros cannot be entirely substituted by
+ functions, unless the callers are changed to pass in the ginfo
+ field only, instead of the SYMBOL parameter. */
+
#define SYMBOL_NAME(symbol) (symbol)->ginfo.name
#define SYMBOL_VALUE(symbol) (symbol)->ginfo.value.ivalue
#define SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS(symbol) (symbol)->ginfo.value.address