From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32166 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2004 10:14:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32158 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2004 10:14:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Oct 2004 10:14:21 -0000 Received: from zaretski (pns03-208-187.inter.net.il [80.230.208.187]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.3-GR) with ESMTP id CTV17007 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:14:15 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:45:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: "Dave Korn" Message-ID: <01c4ad1f$Blat.v2.2.2$3dfd0500@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: (dk@artimi.com) Subject: Re: Discussion: Formalizing the deprecation process in GDB Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00246.txt.bz2 > From: "Dave Korn" > Cc: "'Andrew Cagney'" , > > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:42:24 +0100 > > I look for the internals docs! And complain bitterly when I can't > find them Please don't hesitate to complain here whenever you find missing or outdated docs in GDB. Thanks! > Since opinions are being invited, I'll just mention that I'm currently > working on an internal version of gdb for which I'm having to up-port a > 5.x-compatible backend to 6.x series. I sometimes find it *ever* so hard > when faced with yet another deprecated__ this or obsoleted_ that to know > what the new and approved replacement is Andrew, should we have a section in gdbint.texinfo that lists obsolete techniques and their modern replacements, with short examples of both the old and new code, like we did for ui_* stuff?