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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement "info proc mappings" for NetBSD
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:50:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eetmlv2y.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b16c08b-330f-1aa8-7c69-c14774847047@gmx.com> (Kamil Rytarowski's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:58:18 +0100")

>>>>> "Kamil" == Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com> writes:

Kamil> I see. I prefer to keep this called obfd, as it matches the FreeBSD code
Kamil> more closely. If we want to rename it, we shall do it also in FreeBSD.

Well, that FreeBSD code is wrong too...

>> What if they stop matching?

Kamil> Not a concern.

Kamil> If that will ever change, it will be patched, same as the other
Kamil> existing NetBSD support.

How will cross debugging to different versions work in this situation?

Kamil> I prefer to keep similarity with FreeBSD. If we want to change it,
Kamil> FreeBSD shall be changed too.

...
Kamil> I don't have chance to work or test on FreeBSD myself so I defer
Kamil> refactoring it into future.

It sounds like maybe FreeBSD isn't as maintained?  Unless the two need
to share a lot of code, it seems like it would be better to do things as
well as possible in the maintained code; and let the other code alone.

Tom



  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-16 17:34 Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-19 13:07 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-20 15:36 ` Tom Tromey
2020-03-20 16:58   ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-20 18:50     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-03-20 19:13       ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-25 16:36       ` John Baldwin
2020-03-26 23:24         ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-20 16:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-02 20:09 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-03  1:12   ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-06  9:37   ` [PATCH v3] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-10 10:20     ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-11 21:05     ` Simon Marchi
2020-04-11 21:28       ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-11 21:53         ` Simon Marchi
2020-04-11 23:45     ` [PATCH v4] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-11 23:49       ` Simon Marchi
2020-04-12  0:09         ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-12  0:09       ` [PATCH v5] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-12  0:56         ` Simon Marchi
2020-04-12 10:17           ` Kamil Rytarowski

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