From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: catch load/unload not implemented on any target (remove?)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u63ney8ra.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081027004044.GA3907@adacore.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:40:44 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> I am conflicted as to what to do in the meantime: Leave the code as is,
> and update the documentation that this feature is currently implemented
> on no platform. Or remove the code entirely.
>
> I am leaning towards removing the code entirely, for several reasons:
> - Documentating a feature as unimplemented seems silly;
> - I don't think there is much in the current code that once can
> reuse in order to implement this feature properly
> - When someone is ready to implement this feature again for his platform,
> there shouldn't be much to do in terms of infrastructure work to do at
> the breakpoint module level. So it shouldn't be very difficult to
> implement. There might be one little difficulty based on the fact
> that some architectures will implement this feature using a phyical
> breakpoint (eg: svr4) whereas others won't (eg: Windows), but that
> shouldn't be very difficult to handle by using the right bp_kind.
>
> Thoughts?
Given what you describe, I'm okay with removing that code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 0:41 Joel Brobecker
2008-10-27 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-10-27 14:19 ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-10-27 13:57 ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-10-27 15:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-27 17:45 ` Joel Brobecker
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