Revert patchset for c++/16253: it causes a large performance regression.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / cp-support.c

diff --git a/gdb/cp-support.c b/gdb/cp-support.c
index 91533e8e4ece62353232e610686e27c8dcf26f26..2379b54c2b0251764c5ddb137b0c80a68b20bc26 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/cp-support.c
+++ b/gdb/cp-support.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 #include "expression.h"
 #include "value.h"
 #include "cp-abi.h"
-#include "language.h"
 
 #include "safe-ctype.h"
 
@@ -178,29 +177,7 @@ inspect_type (struct demangle_parse_info *info,
   sym = NULL;
   TRY_CATCH (except, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
   {
-    /* It is not legal to have a typedef and tag name of the same
-       name in C++.  However, anonymous composite types that are defined
-       with a typedef ["typedef struct {...} anonymous_struct;"] WILL
-       have symbols for a TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF (in VAR_DOMAIN) and a
-       TYPE_CODE_STRUCT (in STRUCT_DOMAIN).
-
-       If VAR_DOMAIN is searched first, it will return the TYPEDEF symbol,
-       and this function will never output the definition of the typedef,
-       since type_print is called below with SHOW = -1. [The typedef hash
-       is never initialized/used when SHOW <= 0 -- and the finder
-       (find_typedef_for_canonicalize) will always return NULL as a result.]
-
-       Consequently, type_print will eventually keep calling this function
-       to replace the typedef (via
-       print_name_maybe_canonical/cp_canonicalize_full).  This leads to
-       infinite recursion.
-
-       This can all be safely avoid by explicitly searching STRUCT_DOMAIN
-       first to find the structure definition.  */
-    if (current_language->la_language == language_cplus)
-      sym = lookup_symbol (name, 0, STRUCT_DOMAIN, 0);
-    if (sym == NULL)
-      sym = lookup_symbol (name, 0, VAR_DOMAIN, NULL);
+    sym = lookup_symbol (name, 0, VAR_DOMAIN, 0);
   }
 
   if (except.reason >= 0 && sym != NULL)