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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] build-id .debug files load (like .gnu_debuglink)
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwsv7t8p5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070904022123.458E44D04CC@magilla.localdomain> (message from 	Roland McGrath on Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:21:23 -0700 (PDT))

> From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
> 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 19:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > This is fine, but there's no need to quote ``debug ID'' every time you
> > use it.  I quoted it only when I used it as a name of a method of
> > embedding information about the debug file; in other cases I used it
> > without quotes.
> 
> The canonical term is "build ID", and I do not think it is helpful to
> introduce "debug ID" in any documentation.

We don't introduce such a new term, the above was a typo.  The manual
does not use this term anywhere, it uses "build ID".

> It is also not good to use the term "signature" loosely with relation to
> build ID bits.

What alternative term would you suggest?  I have no shares in this
particular word, if a good alternative exists.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-04  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 18:05 Jan Kratochvil
2007-08-24 18:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-25 22:49   ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-08-25 23:58     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-26  9:41       ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-08-31  9:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-31 20:51           ` [patch approval?] " Jan Kratochvil
2007-08-31 21:12             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-09-01  8:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <20070901081934.GA31205@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
2007-09-01 10:31             ` [patch] " Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-01 11:35               ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-09-01 12:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-01 13:12                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-09-01 13:25                     ` Mark Kettenis
2007-09-01 14:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-02 13:57                       ` [patch approved?] [doc] " Jan Kratochvil
2007-09-02 17:49                         ` Mark Kettenis
2007-09-02 19:38                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-01 14:16                     ` [patch] " Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-04  2:21                   ` Roland McGrath
2007-09-04  3:23                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-09-04  7:21                       ` Roland McGrath
2007-09-15  9:52                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-16 17:19                           ` Roland McGrath
2007-08-25 22:48 ` Roland McGrath

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