From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31678 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2003 19:40:18 -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 31652 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2003 19:40:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Dec 2003 19:40:13 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313B42B8F; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:40:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FCB991C.8010801@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:40:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: kevinb@redhat.com, drow@mvista.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses References: <3FC119EB.1060102@gnu.org> <3FC234C0.1000500@gnu.org> <20031124165047.GA2227@nevyn.them.org> <1031124182547.ZM9776@localhost.localdomain> <3FC26407.9000704@gnu.org> <1031125000932.ZM11256@localhost.localdomain> <3FC60A75.8090803@gnu.org> <9178-Thu27Nov2003192422+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <3FCB6275.2070403@gnu.org> <6654-Mon01Dec2003210731+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 > Very true. Explicit deprecation is a tool for making that part of the >> maintainer and contributor task far easier. Instead of wasting time >> trying to track and find all the things being eliminated, the >> contributor and reviewer can simply keep an eye out for deprecated in >> their patches > > > I'm not convinced that detecting STREQ is harder than detecting > DEPRECATED_STREQ. I was talking generally. There are currently 99 deprecated methods (and a further 78 that are listed as potential candidates). I don't think anyone could reasonably be expected to keep track of all of that, least of all a non-core contributor. Anyway, I think the STREQ specific issue has been beaten to death. I've now learnt a robust mechanical way of eliminating the macro and will endevor to shortly eliminate it. enjoy, Andrew