[Dwarf-discuss] Ranges for DW_TAG_namespace

[Robinson, Paul]

I suppose it didn't seem useful to provide ranges on namespaces. A C++ namespace isn't a program entity of its own, it's a way of managing names of entities. It doesn't even restrict the scope of those names; you can refer to them anywhere if you use the fully qualified version of the name. (With the obvious caveat about names defined in anonymous namespaces.)

Did you have a reason for considering a namespace to be a program entity? What would that entity do?
--paulr

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Subject: [Dwarf-discuss] Ranges for DW_TAG_namespace

Hello,
What is the reasoning for not including range information on DW_TAG_namespace DIEs? Is there a canonical way to check if a DW_TAG_namespace DIE contains a given address?

Thank you,
Jeremy
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