From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5768 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2007 02:00:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 5752 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jul 2007 02:00:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ausmtp05.au.ibm.com (HELO ausmtp05.au.ibm.com) (202.81.18.154) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:00:55 +0000 Received: from d23relay01.au.ibm.com (d23relay01.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.232]) by ausmtp05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6P220XO1400908; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:02:00 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.237]) by d23relay01.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.4) with ESMTP id l6P20C28128796; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:00:12 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6P20nV6007887; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:00:50 +1000 Received: from ozlabs.au.ibm.com (ozlabs.au.ibm.com [9.190.163.12]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6P20lKx007760; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:00:48 +1000 Received: from [10.61.2.156] (haven.au.ibm.com [9.190.164.82]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0BF73515; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:00:46 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: PATCH: remove libiberty/ternary.c et al From: Ben Elliston To: DJ Delorie Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, ian@airs.com, dberlin@dberlin.org In-Reply-To: <200707250140.l6P1eVjQ002759@greed.delorie.com> References: <1185324590.19345.28.camel@localhost> <200707250140.l6P1eVjQ002759@greed.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:08:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1185328845.14525.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00266.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:40 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > It's been sitting there for six years, and I'm not a fan of making new > libiberty versions not backward compatible. Are there any other > reasons to remove it besides "it's there" ? Only the burden of maintaining it. There is only a backward compatibility problem if there is a client of these routines and we have no reason to believe there is. Ben