From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5141 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2001 22:02:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5096 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2001 22:02:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Dec 2001 22:02:13 -0000 Received: from porcupine.cygnus.com (cse.cygnus.com [205.180.230.236]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA01751 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:02:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from porcupine.cygnus.com (law@localhost) by porcupine.cygnus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBRM0w219350; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:01:00 -0700 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Andrew Cagney cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Disable gdb.threads-hp Reply-To: law@redhat.com From: law@redhat.com In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 23 Dec 2001 08:50:49 GMT. <3C259AE9.2050609@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19349.1009490458@porcupine.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00595.txt.bz2 > A GDB convention is to add an ``OBSOLETE'' prefix to code like this - > that way people using search scripts can ignore those lines. In > addition, GDB takes a pretty ruthless aproach to such code and deletes > it after the next release. > > Since this is tcl, I suspect the prefix should be: > > # OBSOLETE > > can I suggest also adding that. FWIW, GDB has a much saner method for dealing with obsolete stuff than GCC; hopefully GCC can learn something from how y'all are handling these kinds of issues. Presumably you just want an OBSOLETE marker at the top of those test files? jeff