From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10111 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2008 23:02:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 10100 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Sep 2008 23:02:01 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:01:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1172A9735; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:01:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bMFRHj2OdHri; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:01:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8CC2A971A; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:01:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9CEECE7ACD; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 01:01:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:02:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: uweigand@de.ibm.com Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc][15/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Dereferencing of integer types Message-ID: <20080905230103.GH15267@adacore.com> References: <20080831175045.128504000@de.ibm.com> <20080831175126.215914000@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080831175126.215914000@de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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: 2008-09/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 > It might make sense to check for which languages this extension > is actually useful, and remove it from the rest. I know that this doesn't make sense in Ada, but I'm always uncomfortable removing "features" when I don't know who might be relying on it. It's reasonably easy to provide that features, so I wouldn't mind keeping it, at least for C/C++/etc languages and Ada. My 2 cents... -- Joel