ooh, that seems like a good idea to me. I'd be happy to follow that style.

Aldrin Montana
Computer Science PhD Student
UC Santa Cruz


On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 4:21 PM Sasha Krassovsky <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I've recently had quite a few pain points while debugging due to the use of
> anonymous namespaces throughout the code. Specifically, GDB does an
> absolutely *terrible* job when a type is in an anonymous namespace (e.g. I
> can't cast an ExecNode to its type). It's also difficult to set breakpoints
> inside of functions within anonymous namespaces (it's feasible but a pain
> to type out).
>
> I understand that we use anonymous namespaces to limit the number of
> symbols exposed by the binary, but this isn't relevant in debug builds.
> Does anyone have opinions about potentially gating our anonymous namespaces
> behind a `#ifndef NDEBUG` check? This way we can still disable exporting
> all of those symbols in release builds but make life much easier when
> debugging.
>
> Thanks,
> Sasha Krassovsky
>

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