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From: Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org, 	pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr
Subject: Re: [RFC] Missing sleep function for mingw hosts
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimdp28yv_Q+tsDWOqFsNWaifZfRUB7K629tUuha@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831v1psnl9.fsf@gnu.org>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:23:46 +0100
>> Cc: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>,
>>  "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>> > > I'd rather we had a replacement in win32-nat.c, instead of importing
>> > > gobs of gnulib stuff needed to provide such a trivial replacement.
>> > > gnulib is GPL, so we can simply copy the code into our sources.
>>
>> gnulib has a mechanism (which we are already using) where
>> we just import the modules we need.  We don't import the whole
>> thing.
>
> I know, but "just the modules we need" are typically huge relative to
> small problems they solve, this one in particular.
>
> Anyway, I'm glad that a much more elegant solution is already
> available in GDB, in the form of gdb_usleep.
>

fwiw, looking at the output of:

https://gitorious.org/gnulib-module-graph/gnulib-module-graph

importing sleep brings in 2 dependencies which we do not already have,
unistd, and verify (in addition to the sleep module).


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-29  8:11 Pierre Muller
2011-03-29 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-29 14:23   ` Pierre Muller
2011-03-29 15:40     ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-29 15:41       ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-29 15:43       ` [RFA] use gdb_usleep instead of sleep in remote-mips.c (was Missing sleep function for mingw hosts) Pierre Muller
2011-03-29 15:53         ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-29 16:54           ` Pierre Muller
2011-03-29 22:05       ` [RFC] Missing sleep function for mingw hosts Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-30  0:06         ` Matt Rice [this message]
2011-03-30  4:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-30  6:25             ` Matt Rice
2011-03-30  9:25               ` Eli Zaretskii

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