From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31669 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2003 19:56:23 -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 31662 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2003 19:56:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp10.atl.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.246) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Dec 2003 19:56:23 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AbmRa-0001Rp-00; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:55:50 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 875824B35A; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:56:04 -0500 (EST) To: cagney@gnu.org, eliz@elta.co.il Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses Cc: drow@mvista.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com Message-Id: <20031231195604.875824B35A@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:56:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 I learned on hp-ux, and Eli learned on djgpp, that there is also a risk from bit rot in imported code such as gdb/readline and gdb/intl. It does not take much work to maintain these but we have to do "break main; run" on more hosts more often. > Also note that we can never draw a simple straight line here. DJGPP, > for instance, is, or at least was, considered an important system so > some rule bending (which often translates into me doing the work no one > else is willing to) is in order. Okay. Michael C