From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Berlin To: jtc@redback.com Cc: Daniel Berlin , RDBrown@mira.net, RodneyBrown@mynd.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: gdb/corefile.c (0401 snap on HP-UX). Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:06:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <5mhezy6l5z.fsf@jtc.redback.com> <5mwv8s8diu.fsf@jtc.redback.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00108.html jtc@redback.com (J.T. Conklin) writes: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Berlin writes: > >> I'm not sure that I like this patch, but I'm not sure I can come up > >> with a resonable alternative in the short term. Perhaps the code to > >> find the symbol file cooresponding to the core file (this is the bit > >> that needs symfile_objfile) should be replaced with a config specific > >> hook. But because it is also wrapped with HPUXHPPA, I'm not opposed > >> to checking this in now, and fixing it up later. > > Dan> Please don't. > > See my response to Kevin. In short, I'm not going to. > Just got it. > Dan> The idea is not to *add* things wrapped with HPUXHPPA, rather, > Dan> remove them. Pretending they will be fixed up later isn't a > Dan> good idea. They haven't been thus far. There is no indication > Dan> this will change. > > You don't need to lecture me about this. Okey dokey, sorry about that. > I've been one of the most > vocal critics about adding cruft believing the fiction we'll fix it > later. It's not just cruft, too, as i'm sure you know. There are whole targets and language support modules that never got fixed "later". :) > This is why I asked for further comments instead of commit- > ing the patch as is. > > --jtc > > -- > J.T. Conklin > RedBack Networks -- I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."