From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32093 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2002 01:42:50 -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 31864 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2002 01:42:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2002 01:42:42 -0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (A17-129-100-225.apple.com [17.129.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2J1gfa16515 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv3.apple.com (scv3.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:42:41 -0800 Received: from apple.com (vpn-gh-1104.apple.com [17.254.140.79]) by scv3.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2J1gaX05963; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:42:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C969786.A0DA66F5@apple.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:42:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Blandy CC: Neil Booth , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: RFC: C/C++ preprocessor macro support for GDB References: <20020317062306.CC96D5E9DE@zwingli.cygnus.com> <20020318183339.GB19897@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00332.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy wrote: > > What I do not want to do is block GDB's having even the most basic > macro support on integrating a 11kloc library from a different > repository, perhaps negotiating interface changes, etc. Simply > because one is worried that desireable, important cleanups won't > happen after a change doesn't mean that GDB is better off without the > change at all. Incidentally, since I haven't seen many people saying it, I'm just ecstatic that this is becoming reality! It's been on the GDB wish list as long as I can remember, and users everywhere will be joyful to have this. The kibitzing here is just our way of, uh, "helping". :-) So, thank you! Stan