From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2974 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2002 16:28:13 -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 2940 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 16:28:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 16:28:11 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D673D19; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:28:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C41B59B.70801@cygnus.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 08:28:00 -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: Elena Zannoni Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Patch for building gdb on arm-netbsd References: <3C3C7C07.2090203@cygnus.com> <15420.33952.241143.297813@localhost.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00344.txt.bz2 > I'm puzzled as to why it would be Elena? > > Oh, just because I expressed a few times a strong dislike for > STREQ. :-) Just a footnote on this. Looks like GDB is definitly right with trying to eliminate STREQ() et.al.. Turns out that GCC already does things like replace: strcpy (foo, "foo"); with memcpy (foo, "foo", 4); so simplifying the code for str*() giving GDB a free hand is a good thing. enjoy, Andrew