[rfc] lookups with natural/linkage names

[Paul N. Hilfinger]

> * Add a function

>    struct symbol *lookup_symbol_linkage (const char *name);

>  that looks up the symbol whose linkage name is NAME.  It only looks
>  up global or static symbols (with preference to the former), and
>  only looks up symbols in VAR_DOMAIN; it doesn't apply any
>  language-specific rules.  This will, for example, give us a reliable
>  way to find the symbol associated to a minsym, no matter how
>  complicated C++ lookup rules make things.

David,

What exactly is the reasoning that says that such lookups needn't consider
local (or rather non-static/global) symbols?

Paul