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.
next prev parent 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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