From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1537 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2013 22:09:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 1528 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Feb 2013 22:09:00 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (83.163.83.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:08:52 +0000 Received: from glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r14M8iKo002923; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:08:44 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id r14M8faW018745; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:08:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:09:00 -0000 Message-Id: <201302042208.r14M8faW018745@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: tromey@redhat.com CC: marcus.shawcroft@arm.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com In-reply-to: <876227299x.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:01:30 -0700) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdbserver ptrace() argument type cleanups. References: <510FF048.8070701@arm.com> <201302041857.r14IvSWJ000937@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <876227299x.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> 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: 2013-02/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 > From: Tom Tromey > Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:01:30 -0700 > > >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Kettenis writes: > > Mark> I'd use the word "obfuscation" instead of "cleanup". > > It is awful but necessary. Yeah I know. Somebody should lock up the developers of the viarious Linux libc's in a room and don't let them out until they come up with prototype for ptrace that they all agree on.