From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31818 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2003 02:08:44 -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 31810 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 02:08:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.sf.frob.com) (64.81.54.130) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2003 02:08:43 -0000 Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7530C357B; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9728gN2011815; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:08:42 -0700 Received: (from roland@localhost) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h9728fCd011811; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:08:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:08:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200310070208.h9728fCd011811@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] target_read_aux_vector In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney's message of Monday, 6 October 2003 21:58:51 -0400 <3F821DDB.8010809@redhat.com> Emacs: the prosecution rests its case. X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 > Roland, not sure why you posted this. The relevant discussion has still > not been resolved. I like to write code more than I like to speculate about how I will write it. My favorite sort of discussion about code includes exchanges of "like this? [and some code that might work]", "no, different because of foo and bar", "ok, so like this? [and some different code that might work]", and so on. Let's have a discussion like that! I developed one of the alternatives being discussed to flesh out the issues with doing it that way. In the process, I noticed that part of it was independently useful (fixing a missing part of gcore functionality). I posted this patch to demonstrate the utility of this alternative for the purpose we are discussing, and the bonus feature that my patch as posted fixes an existing, separate shortcoming of gdb. Now discuss!