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From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Why do functions objfpy_new and pspy_new exist?
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542DCD9B.9010400@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22TKh6s-NN61HHu=mwf99uu6hTQHOH+GEiVeZmg++H58Zw@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/25/14, 3:07 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
[...]
> 
> I know I've mentioned this before, but since the topic has come up again,
> I think GDB could have a formal deprecation process that would allow
> us to remove things we'd like to remove (this is for API-like things
> which are harder to remove than, e.g., outdated ports).

Nominally, the existing process is as described at

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Obsoleting-code

We've also done "deprecate in one release, remove in the next", and
added "deprecated_" onto function names and such.  Empirically, it
hasn't created the desired urgency - people have been content to keep
calling deprecated_foo for many years after its deprecation. :-)

Stan
stan@codesourcery.com


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24 21:38 Doug Evans
2014-09-25 10:09 ` Phil Muldoon
2014-09-25 15:18   ` Paul_Koning
2014-09-25 21:29     ` Phil Muldoon
2014-09-25 22:07       ` Doug Evans
2014-10-01 18:10         ` Phil Muldoon
2014-10-02 22:11         ` Stan Shebs [this message]

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