From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:05:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Remove cp_lookup_transparent_type
X-Git-Tag: binutils-2_46~136
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3aa5a9655e634e9172be89b12a978e61eeb9f2e8;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git

Remove cp_lookup_transparent_type

cp_lookup_transparent_type seems to be a workaround for bugs in very
old compilers.  A comment mentions that the bugs are fixed in GCC 3.4
-- released in 2004.

I think this is long past due for removal, which this patch does.

Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
---

diff --git a/gdb/c-lang.c b/gdb/c-lang.c
index 8f5dcb0f29e..033a4b174e9 100644
--- a/gdb/c-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/c-lang.c
@@ -919,14 +919,6 @@ public:
     lai->set_bool_type (builtin->builtin_bool, "bool");
   }
 
-  /* See language.h.  */
-  struct type *lookup_transparent_type (const char *name,
-					domain_search_flags flags)
-    const override
-  {
-    return cp_lookup_transparent_type (name, flags);
-  }
-
   /* See language.h.  */
   unsigned int search_name_hash (const char *name) const override
   {
diff --git a/gdb/cp-namespace.c b/gdb/cp-namespace.c
index c7832088a91..2e3c539507c 100644
--- a/gdb/cp-namespace.c
+++ b/gdb/cp-namespace.c
@@ -44,10 +44,6 @@ static struct block_symbol
 			     const domain_search_flags domain,
 			     int basic_lookup, int is_in_anonymous);
 
-static struct type *cp_lookup_transparent_type_loop (const char *name,
-						     const char *scope,
-						     int scope_len);
-
 /* Check to see if SYMBOL refers to an object contained within an
    anonymous namespace; if so, add an appropriate using directive.  */
 
@@ -966,80 +962,6 @@ cp_lookup_nested_symbol (struct type *parent_type,
     }
 }
 
-/* The C++-version of lookup_transparent_type.  */
-
-/* FIXME: carlton/2004-01-16: The problem that this is trying to
-   address is that, unfortunately, sometimes NAME is wrong: it may not
-   include the name of namespaces enclosing the type in question.
-   lookup_transparent_type gets called when the type in question
-   is a declaration, and we're trying to find its definition; but, for
-   declarations, our type name deduction mechanism doesn't work.
-   There's nothing we can do to fix this in general, I think, in the
-   absence of debug information about namespaces (I've filed PR
-   gdb/1511 about this); until such debug information becomes more
-   prevalent, one heuristic which sometimes looks is to search for the
-   definition in namespaces containing the current namespace.
-
-   We should delete this functions once the appropriate debug
-   information becomes more widespread.  (GCC 3.4 will be the first
-   released version of GCC with such information.)  */
-
-struct type *
-cp_lookup_transparent_type (const char *name, domain_search_flags flags)
-{
-  /* First, try the honest way of looking up the definition.  */
-  struct type *t = basic_lookup_transparent_type (name, flags);
-  const char *scope;
-
-  if (t != NULL)
-    return t;
-
-  /* If that doesn't work and we're within a namespace, look there
-     instead.  */
-  const block *block = get_selected_block (0);
-  if (block == nullptr)
-    return nullptr;
-
-  scope = block->scope ();
-
-  if (scope[0] == '\0')
-    return NULL;
-
-  return cp_lookup_transparent_type_loop (name, scope, 0);
-}
-
-/* Lookup the type definition associated to NAME in namespaces/classes
-   containing SCOPE whose name is strictly longer than LENGTH.  LENGTH
-   must be the index of the start of a component of SCOPE.  */
-
-static struct type *
-cp_lookup_transparent_type_loop (const char *name,
-				 const char *scope,
-				 int length)
-{
-  int scope_length = length + cp_find_first_component (scope + length);
-  char *full_name;
-
-  /* If the current scope is followed by "::", look in the next
-     component.  */
-  if (scope[scope_length] == ':')
-    {
-      struct type *retval
-	= cp_lookup_transparent_type_loop (name, scope,
-					   scope_length + 2);
-
-      if (retval != NULL)
-	return retval;
-    }
-
-  full_name = (char *) alloca (scope_length + 2 + strlen (name) + 1);
-  strncpy (full_name, scope, scope_length);
-  memcpy (full_name + scope_length, "::", 2);
-  strcpy (full_name + scope_length + 2, name);
-
-  return basic_lookup_transparent_type (full_name);
-}
-
 /* This used to do something but was removed when it became
    obsolete.  */
 
diff --git a/gdb/cp-support.h b/gdb/cp-support.h
index c4579fe24c6..fb41a3c15b2 100644
--- a/gdb/cp-support.h
+++ b/gdb/cp-support.h
@@ -161,9 +161,6 @@ extern struct block_symbol
 			   const struct block *block,
 			   const domain_search_flags domain);
 
-struct type *cp_lookup_transparent_type (const char *name,
-					 domain_search_flags flags);
-
 /* See description in cp-namespace.c.  */
 
 struct type *cp_find_type_baseclass_by_name (struct type *parent_type,