From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: toddpw@wrs.com (Todd Whitesel)
To: gdb-patches@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgdb (was none)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:29:00 -0000
Message-id: <199903110029.QAA29879@alabama.wrs.com>
References: <199903102339.PAA21930@andros.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00024.html

> I thought all the libgdb crud in the makefile was gone, thanks for
> pointing it out.  I'll delete it if nobody comes up with a good reason
> for saving it - incomplete and/or broken code in the source never seems
> to do anything except cause confusion and thus waste people's time, so
> it's better just to make it go away.

I vote for deleting it; principle of least confusion. Don't go out of your
way to make it harder for someone to do a real implementation later though.

Actually it might be fine to just comment it out, with a note to the effect
of "this functionality was never completely implemented" ...

Personally, I prefer protocol-based approaches to "lib" implementations.
I maintain the WRS/vxWorks commercial patches to GDB, and really need to
clean them up so they can go back in; unfortunately I came down with a
tenacious illness at the turn of the year, and since then I have been
struggling just to keep up with release deadlines.

-- 
Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ wrs.com


From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: toddpw@wrs.com (Todd Whitesel)
To: gdb-patches@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgdb (was none)
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0000
Message-ID: <199903110029.QAA29879@alabama.wrs.com>
References: <199903102339.PAA21930@andros.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q1/msg00078.html
Message-ID: <19990401000000.7V0ZRga_YwEC20kSNTAGS02KVHp2UmSCTLE_NzYANas@z>

> I thought all the libgdb crud in the makefile was gone, thanks for
> pointing it out.  I'll delete it if nobody comes up with a good reason
> for saving it - incomplete and/or broken code in the source never seems
> to do anything except cause confusion and thus waste people's time, so
> it's better just to make it go away.

I vote for deleting it; principle of least confusion. Don't go out of your
way to make it harder for someone to do a real implementation later though.

Actually it might be fine to just comment it out, with a note to the effect
of "this functionality was never completely implemented" ...

Personally, I prefer protocol-based approaches to "lib" implementations.
I maintain the WRS/vxWorks commercial patches to GDB, and really need to
clean them up so they can go back in; unfortunately I came down with a
tenacious illness at the turn of the year, and since then I have been
struggling just to keep up with release deadlines.

-- 
Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ wrs.com