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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA, doc RFA] Rename "maint check-symtabs" to "maint check-psymtabs"
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Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 19:25:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22RGCkZ3t4eP30-VYqm3Gb5h9=gK3rEHxNGMruiJuM0LWQ@mail.gmail.com>	(Doug Evans's message of "Tue, 7 May 2013 19:25:12 -0700")
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

>> 1) Rename "maint check-symtabs" to "maint check-psymtabs".
>> 2) Add -n option to "maint check-psymtabs" to prevent symtab expansion.
>> 3) Add "maint check-symtabs".

Doug> Another way to go, and I like this better,
Doug> is to add a command that expands symtabs (perhaps based on a regexp),
Doug> and then have "maint check-psymtabs" not do symtab expansion at all.
Doug> [I'd prefer it if "maint check-foo" always had a default behaviour of
Doug> no side effects.]

I also like this idea.
I thought the patch was fine, too.

Tom