From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26718 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2002 00:43:50 -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 26711 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2002 00:43:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2002 00:43:48 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AAC3C44; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D8134C1.8030807@ges.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:43:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Add one "const" keyword References: <20020912235127.GM1105@gnat.com> <3D812DC2.6030001@ges.redhat.com> <20020913002803.GO1105@gnat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00232.txt.bz2 > 2002-09-12 Joel Brobecker >> > >> > * value.h (find_function_in_inferior): Add const keyword to >> > one of the parameters. Allows us to invoke this function with >> > a const char *. >> > * valops.c (find_function_in_inferior): Likewise. > >> >> So yes, obvious. > > > Thank you, it's in. > > BTW: Would it be worth having a page with a list of easy changes that > could help the gdb project? This one would qualify, and being able to > compile with -WWwrite-strings would be quite useful. I remember when I > was doing my military service (this stopped being an obligation only a > few years after I did mine) that I found myself with a lot of free time. > I moved my computer on my desk, and I was wondering how I could > contribute back to the free software community, to say thank you. I > looked at helping on certain projects I was interested in, but ended up > creating GtkAda with another friend of mine, as most of the assignments > I would be able to get from the already existing projects seemed a bit > too hard as a first step in the project. Maybe a page with such a list > of easy changes for some people looking for some ways to contribute > would help? Just some out of the box thinking... I think the best starting point is the bug database (under change request). Some of the GDB developers activly monitor it (Some don't though :-( ). After that, the ARI, but I tend to save that one for rainy days :-) Neither of these are sorted in ``easyness'' order though :-( Andrew