Re: Modernize solaris threads support.

[Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
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> Eli> It's a matter of personal preferences
>
> Thanks for explaining.
>
> Eli> I also dislike gratuitous changes in code that is there for at least 9
> Eli> years.
>
> Describing other people's considered changes as gratuitous has a
> negative effect.  I am sure Pedro did not think this was gratuitous
> when he wrote it; in fact, he explained why he did it.
>   
As another take on it, one thing I think we want to avoid is to make GDB 
into a some kind of a museum of long-gone programming style. Yes, it can 
be handy to have annotation show that some line hasn't changed in 15 
years (although the value of that is not so much when the lines have 
complicated interactions with each other). But we simply read the code 
more often than we run cvs annotate, and we want to attract new 
developers, so the general style of the code should be as modern and as 
sophisticated as is consistent with our other requirements. Also, while 
we might like somebody to take on wholesale mass updates as a separate 
task, that can result in us waiting for a long time, while the code gets 
older and moldier every day. Incremental progress is messier, but it's 
still progress!

Stan