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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,        gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patchv3 1/5] Mostly code cleanup: Constification
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> What's wrong with utility wrappers?

In the general case they require the introduction of a new function, a
new type, and marshalling and unmarshalling code.  This is verbose and
error prone.

I suppose catch_command_errors* aren't quite so bad.

Tom