From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17333 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2008 21:01:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 17325 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jan 2008 21:01:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qnxmail.qnx.com (HELO qnxmail.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:01:19 +0000 Received: from smtp.ott.qnx.com (smtp.ott.qnx.com [10.42.96.5]) by hub.ott.qnx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22487; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:48:12 -0500 Received: from [10.42.100.129] (dhcp-100-129 [10.42.100.129]) by smtp.ott.qnx.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA24157; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:01:16 -0500 Message-ID: <47A2371C.3020402@qnx.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:49:00 -0000 From: Aleksandar Ristovski User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] make --disable-gdbmi work References: <47A23493.5000508@qnx.com> <20080131205719.GA1887@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20080131205719.GA1887@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00870.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote: >> The attached patch fixes the problem. > > My opinion is that we don't want this functionality any more. MI used > to be optional, but it is a central part of GDB nowadays, and > conditional compilation is hard to maintain. > It certainly adds some effort to maintenance, but it's not as bad as it may sound, especially since the change is not extensive at all (see the patch). For embedded systems, it is important to have as small a binary as possible, and if we can reduce it with reasonable effort, I would say, why not?