From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18233 invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2014 08:45:39 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 18223 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jun 2014 08:45:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:45:37 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB3E116133; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:45:35 -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 b2jOAGj-3xUJ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:45:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1B6116124; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:45:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6B8FD40F35; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:45:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:45:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] more constification Message-ID: <20140612084534.GC4730@adacore.com> References: <1402512797-6082-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1402512797-6082-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00494.txt.bz2 Hi Tom, > Patch #6 casts away const in a couple spots. There's a justification > in the patch; but I also wanted to add that the casts only affect > mdebugread.c, which can't really be said to be actively maintained in > any case. I am wondering whether we should consider the option of deprecating those targets that use this code. This affects alpha-tru64 and maybe mips-linux (although - is that option still supported by GCC? And even if it was, who would want to use that object format instead of ELF???). It's also said to be used by some versions of IRIX, but I am not sure that GDB works on those - the ones we've been supporting until a few years ago were using ELF. -- Joel