From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26265 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2005 21:46:11 -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 26254 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2005 21:46:07 -0000 Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:46:07 +0000 Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (root@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl [192.168.0.2]) by sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5ULhFAR026631; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:43:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5ULhEI7007243; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:43:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j5ULh9ms016566; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:43:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:46:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200506302143.j5ULh9ms016566@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: sje@cup.hp.com CC: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <200506301438.HAA20132@hpsje.cup.hp.com> (message from Steve Ellcey on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:38:24 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: mmalloc question References: <200506301438.HAA20132@hpsje.cup.hp.com> X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00318.txt.bz2 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:38:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Ellcey I have been looking at removing the uses of BFD_NEED_DECLARATION from the source tree and replacing it with the standard AC_CHECK_DECL. This is possible now that we have moved up from autoconf 2.14. Eventually, I would like to remove the definition of BFD_NEED_DECLARATION from the src/bfd subdirectory. Great! gdb uses BFD_NEED_DECLARATION in two subdirectories, in src/gdb, which should be easy to fix and in src/mmalloc. Now mmalloc says it is no longer maintained and it hasn't been updated since 2003. My question is: does mmalloc need to be updated if I want to get rid of BFD_NEED_DECLARATION or can it be left alone with the knowledge that after the BFD_NEED_DECLARATION definition is removed from the src/bfd it will no longer build? The top-level configure still seems to allow for mmalloc to be built, but when I ran 'make all-mmalloc' it didn't actually try to build anything, it just returned after doing nothing. As far as GDB is concerned, mmalloc is gone, and I'm not aware of any other project using it. So don't worry about it. I'm perfectly happy with letting it rot. Mark