From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, "Martin M. Hunt" <hunt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] fix for utils.c bool problem
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 09:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020208123825.B23880@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C640642.3020908@cygnus.com>
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:09:22PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >Sorry if I missed an objection. I was a little out of it yesterday.
> >
> >The immediate problem was -not- fixed. To start back at the beginning
> >again:
> > - On my machine, running a current Debian system, <curses.h> includes
> > <stdbool.h>. We have to live with that. There's nothing I can
> > particularly do about it.
>
>
> Is that a current or a released debian system? A released system I'd
> probably agreeable to. A current system I'm less so.
Current. But for Debian that's a somewhat meaningless distinction;
probably a quarter or more of the Debian users run current. The
package in question will be in the next release, hopefully in a few
months.
> > - The way I tried to fix this was by also using stdbool.h if it was
> > available. But <stdbool.h> conflicts with an awful lot of existing
> > code. This is unfortunate, and this is where the proper fix lies,
> > IMO.
> > - The way I settled on fixing this, and committed, was to use
> > <stdbool.h> if something included before bfd.h had already brought
> > it in. This appears to work in all cases.
> >
> >I strongly want to avoid leaving GDB unbuildable on this class of
> >systems. I don't have any particular attachment to my patch. I would
> >love to revert it, as soon as there is an alternative solution in
> >place.
>
>
> See my thread on binutils about how to fix the problem.
As I've said, I have no objection to fixing it that way. But I do
object to leaving it broken.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-08 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-07 13:33 Martin M. Hunt
2002-02-07 13:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-07 14:01 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-07 14:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-07 15:28 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-08 7:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-08 8:51 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-08 8:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-08 9:09 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-08 9:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-02-08 10:55 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-28 22:04 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-07 13:40 ` Fernando Nasser
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