From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27872 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2009 20:50:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 27828 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2009 20:50:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_STOCKGEN X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:49:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87E12BAAF2; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:49:54 -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 KyEcJzdaxAFz; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:49:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCD62BAAC2; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:49:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7C8DEF596C; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:50:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller Subject: Re: [RFA/Windows] Remove ADD_SHARED_SYMBOL_FILES macro Message-ID: <20090622204950.GC7766@adacore.com> References: <003d01c9d4e2$987399a0$c95acce0$@u-strasbg.fr> <006e01c9dd14$5a9cf510$0fd6df30$@u-strasbg.fr> <20090525225725.GI23016@adacore.com> <200905260014.02926.pedro@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200905260014.02926.pedro@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: 2009-06/txt/msg00588.txt.bz2 [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