Re: [PATCH] Define GNULIB_NAMESPACE in unittests/string_view-selftests.c

Joel Brobecker
2018-05-09T14:00:41Z

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> ... and that's what led to last year's C++ wildmatching support,
> "b -qualified", tab completion improvements, etc.

Very interesting, erm, story. Thanks for taking the time to share
it again.

> So I was waiting for gdb 8.1 (at least) to be out before proposing
> moving all of gdb to a namespace, in order to give folks a little
> time to get comfortable with the new features, and make it
> reasonable to suggest that folks upgrade their top gdb to 8.1 (a
> released version) instead of to git/trunk gdb if they want to gdb
> a bit more conveniently. That's why I was wondering whether
> now would be good time to propose moving forward with the
> "namespace gdb" approach, since 8.1 has been out for a bit.

Personally, I always use the latest and greatest, as a way of
giving it more actual-use testing. So switching now wouldn't be
a problem.

Since 8.1 is out, and we had very very very very very few bug
reports so far, I would vote for going ahead now.

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Joel