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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] to_read/write_partial -> to_xfer_partial
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031027204631.ZM31164@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> "[patch/rfc] to_read/write_partial -> to_xfer_partial" (Oct 27,  3:25pm)

On Oct 27,  3:25pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Per: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-10/msg00641.html
> > Having taken the change to this point, I'm now wondering if the read/write partial methods should be merged into:
> > to_xfer_partial (targ, object, annex,
> > offset, len,
> > readbuf, writebuf)
> > as that would make migrating existing targets easier.
> 
> Having implemented bfd-target and remote-target versions 
> to_read/write_partial, I think this switch is going to make life easier. 

Could you offer a few more details on why you think that merging the
read/write methods into a single xfer method will make it easier to
migrate existing targets?

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-27 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-27 20:25 Andrew Cagney
2003-10-27 20:46 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2003-10-27 22:29   ` Mark Kettenis
2003-10-28 15:49   ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-28 22:11     ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-29  0:03       ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-29  5:15         ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-31 16:13 ` Andrew Cagney

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