* symtab.c (lookup_symbol_in_language): Improve comment.

	(lookup_symbol_aux): Fix comment.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 16993320c5de7d0e369e1711b1aa8e7d12258c5a..41b77bb006e514390089f101f9ee3249ae22cc26 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2012-01-26  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>
 
+       * symtab.c (lookup_symbol_in_language): Improve comment.
+       (lookup_symbol_aux): Fix comment.
+
        * psymtab.c (add_psymbol_to_list): Result is now "void".
        * psympriv.h (add_psymbol_to_list): Update.
 

diff --git a/gdb/symtab.c b/gdb/symtab.c
index d3e7b04c23cecf6347799765be004a9e3e236478..04db57650b774fc829daf41657eda7f84ee2b243 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/symtab.c
+++ b/gdb/symtab.c
@@ -1170,11 +1170,11 @@ demangle_for_lookup (const char *name, enum language lang,
    BLOCK_FOUND is set to the block in which NAME is found (in the case of
    a field of `this', value_of_this sets BLOCK_FOUND to the proper value.)  */
 
-/* This function has a bunch of loops in it and it would seem to be
-   attractive to put in some QUIT's (though I'm not really sure
-   whether it can run long enough to be really important).  But there
+/* This function (or rather its subordinates) have a bunch of loops and
+   it would seem to be attractive to put in some QUIT's (though I'm not really
+   sure whether it can run long enough to be really important).  But there
    are a few calls for which it would appear to be bad news to quit
-   out of here: find_proc_desc in alpha-tdep.c and mips-tdep.c.  (Note
+   out of here: e.g., find_proc_desc in alpha-mdebug-tdep.c.  (Note
    that there is C++ code below which can error(), but that probably
    doesn't affect these calls since they are looking for a known
    variable and thus can probably assume it will never hit the C++
@@ -1234,9 +1234,7 @@ lookup_language_this (const struct language_defn *lang,
 }
 
 /* Behave like lookup_symbol except that NAME is the natural name
-   of the symbol that we're looking for and, if LINKAGE_NAME is
-   non-NULL, ensure that the symbol's linkage name matches as
-   well.  */
+   (e.g., demangled name) of the symbol that we're looking for.  */
 
 static struct symbol *
 lookup_symbol_aux (const char *name, const struct block *block,