From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17473 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2003 21:03:46 -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 17459 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 21:03:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 21:03:42 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D513EC2; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:03:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E1C9225.8050605@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:03:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/i386] Make codestream deprecated? References: <3DEAAB57.4070609@redhat.com> <86bs3yoxc7.fsf@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <3E1C878B.2050607@redhat.com> <20030108203021.GA5740@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00339.txt.bz2 > Besides: this is why you should _remove_ them, rather than just > commenting them, if you want them to go away. The implication here being that I'm not removing deprecated code? The simple reality is that it is not possible for a single individual remove all the old code in a single hit. It takes a group of people co-operating, and it takes time. If you look through the change log you'll notice that deprecated methods are being removed from the core of GDB, but the -tdep and -nat files are being left largely untouched. Then, every so often, I or another maintainer will expunge the deprecated code from a target being it back into synck. Over time the old code moves to the edges of gdb where it wilters and dies. Andrew