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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 32 bit-ism in lm32-tdep.c (and some sloppy macros)
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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:20:36 -0700
> 
> >>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> Pedro> On Monday 14 November 2011 15:48:48, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >> I was a little surprised to find out we already use int16_t in gdb.
> 
> Pedro> We pull stdint.h from gnulib.
> 
> I was meaning to ask ... do we have a gnulib update policy?
> I wanted to pull in stdbool.h and start using bool in gdb; plus maybe
> some other bits so we can use O_CLOEXEC and friends (but only maybe --
> it isn't clear to me that gnulib is the best way to tackle this
> problem).  Anyway, then I noticed that the existing files are not
> up-to-date against gnulib git.
> 
> It seemed to me that updating now, just before a release, was maybe not
> the best time.  Any thoughts?

I'd say we should only update if there is a specific need.