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From: jss@hector.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Disambiguating identifiers (was Re: ...Does C++ work with dbx...)
Keywords: C++, dbx, ctags
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Date: 24 May 88 13:38:53 GMT
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In article <269@sdti.UUCP> mjy@sdti.UUCP (0000-Michael J. Young) writes:
>
>We've all had to deal with this problem in one way or another.  One of
>the major advantages I see to native-code compilers is the debugging
>support (i.e., access functions and variables by their unmangled identifiers)
>that would come with it.  
>

Do not assume that a native-code compiler is neccessarily better than
one that uses C as an intermediate. While certain possibilities may
be available to a native-code generator that are not possible for a
compiler that uses C as an intermediate language, there is no
guarantee that a native-compiler will be able to use this flexibility
in a way that a debugger can use.  You have to look at any particular
compiler/debugger system to be sure.

Jerry Schwarz