Re: [RFA/Windows] Remove ADD_SHARED_SYMBOL_FILES macro

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

[trying to catch up on email...]

> On Monday 25 May 2009 23:57:25, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > >        (_initialize _symfile): Move "add-shared-symbol-files"
> > >        command and "assf" alias.
> > >        * windows-nat.c (_initialize_windows_nat): to here.
> > >        Change "add-shared-symbol-files" to alias.
> > 
> > I propose we deprecate these aliases as well; does it really make sense
> > to have 2 identical commands?
> > 
> 
> Well, let me go the other way around.  Why is "dll-symbols" needed
> at all?  Why isn't "add-symbol-file" good enough?  Other than the
> ugly safe_symbol_file_add hack that would be nice to get rid of,
> and setting OBJF_SHARED (itself dubious) it doesn't have anything Windows
> specific at all (magically appending ".dll" doesn't count).

I would love to get rid of these commands if they are indeed equivalent
to add-symbol-file. I assumed that there was a reason for the different
command name. Chris, do you remember?

-- 
Joel