Re: [PATCH, doc RFA] Rename maint/set-debug "dwarf2" commands to "dwarf"

Doug Evans
2015-05-13T16:41:08Z

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 00:11:05 +0000
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>>
>> This patch renames the user-visible uses of "dwarf2" to "dwarf".
>> It's triggered by the discussion here:
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-05/msg00286.html
>
> I have no comments to the docs, but do we want to leave behind an
> alias, in case there are scripts out there that rely on this command's
> current name?

For non maint and set-debug commands, I'd completely agree.

I was under the impression this was unnecessary for maint and
set-debug commands though.
[I'd hate to unnecessarily complicate the code just for something like this.]