Re: Alternative to deprecated_init_ui_hook?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:37:24AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:52:52AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:35:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>In cleaning up the cygwin gdb shared library handling, I'm now able to
> >>use the "info sharedlibrary" command from solib.c.  Previously this
> >>command was implemented in win32-nat.c but now that is no longer
> >>necessary.
> >>
> >>There was previously an alias for this command -- "info dll".  I'm not
> >>having much luck adding this alias now because "info sharedlibrary" is
> >>set up after _initialize_win32 is called in init.cc -- a standard
> >>problem, IIRC.
> >>
> >>I've resorted to using deprecated_init_ui_hook to set this alias and
> >>that works but, given that the function begins with the word
> >>"deprectated", I would rather not use this method.
> >>
> >>Is there any other way to add this alias, though?  I don't see anything
> >>obvious and I don't want to remove a command that cygwin gdb users may
> >>have become accustomed to.
> >
> >Could you register it as a command rather than an alias, by exporting
> >the implementing function from solib.c?
> 
> Yes, if the function in solib.c was made global, I could just call it in
> win32-nat.c.  That seems "wrong" somehow, though.

I think you need to either do that, or else add the "info dll" alias in
solib.c.  Neither pretty.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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