From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25144 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2004 11:00:31 -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 24711 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2004 11:00:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Oct 2004 11:00:28 -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 CTV29876 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:00:16 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:13:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Joel Brobecker Message-ID: <01c4ad25$Blat.v2.2.2$aafb2f00@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: dk@artimi.com, cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20041007231735.GN1282@gnat.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:17:35 -0700) Subject: Re: Discussion: Formalizing the deprecation process in GDB Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20041007180121.GL1282@gnat.com> <20041007231735.GN1282@gnat.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00250.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:17:35 -0700 > From: Joel Brobecker > Cc: 'Andrew Cagney' , 'Eli Zaretskii' , > gdb@sources.redhat.com > > Then if you want to know more, you just go to where the entity is > defined, and look at the comments there. Reality check: could you please look thru the files that define those deprecated functions and tell how many of them have comments which actually tell what code should replace them? I just took a quick look and found that the vast majority of them don't have any such commentary at all. > In any case, the main debate between Andrew and Eli is not about where > to put the information, but *when* it is ok to decide that something > is declared deprecated. Indeed.