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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] gdbserver: remove function abbrevs from debugging text
References: <yjt261qnupa6.fsf@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com>	<52B0EF1E.7080302@codesourcery.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:13:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <52B0EF1E.7080302@codesourcery.com> (Yao Qi's message of "Wed, 18	Dec 2013 08:41:02 +0800")
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>>>>> "Yao" == Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> writes:

Yao> The function names in debugging output will be out of sync as function
Yao> names are changed, unless macro __func__ is used.  However, __func__
Yao> is defined in C99 and we are using C90 (?) in GDB.

FWIW we found out a while back that gdbserver actually relies on GNU C
-- see the ax_debug and ax_debug_1 defines in ax.c.  And, BFD
unconditionally uses "long long" in spots.  So while the rule is
officially that gdb is C89, in practice that isn't actually true.

Tom