From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14556 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2002 18:19:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14500 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 18:19:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 18:19:29 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C533C53; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:19:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C3F2CA8.70009@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:19:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: law@redhat.com Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Disable gdb.threads-hp References: <19349.1009490458@porcupine.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00299.txt.bz2 > > A GDB convention is to add an ``OBSOLETE'' prefix to code like this - > > that way people using search scripts can ignore those lines. In > > addition, GDB takes a pretty ruthless aproach to such code and deletes > > it after the next release. > > > Since this is tcl, I suspect the prefix should be: > > > # OBSOLETE > > > can I suggest also adding that. > FWIW, GDB has a much saner method for dealing with obsolete stuff than GCC; > hopefully GCC can learn something from how y'all are handling these kinds of > issues. Are you sure about this now that we've started looking at obsoleting half the targets? :-) > Presumably you just want an OBSOLETE marker at the top of those test files? It is more like this: # OBSOLETE # usrthbasic.exp -- Expect script to test gdb with user threads # OBSOLETE # Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # OBSOLETE I'll post a patch. Andrew