From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14091 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2002 23:24:27 -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 14077 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2002 23:24:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2002 23:24:26 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B631C3CF5; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:24:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DCAF62A.2050209@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:24:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Jim Blandy , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: HP catchpoint code References: <20020812153334.GA30891@nevyn.them.org> <20020813214211.GA9735@nevyn.them.org> <3D598150.1000106@ges.redhat.com> <20021018221617.GA4804@nevyn.them.org> <3DB418F1.2050607@redhat.com> <20021021153319.GA23624@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 > In summary, I'd rather yank it; mark the bits in HP-specific files as > //OBSOLETE; and go on to support this feature on what seems to be a > more useful and supported platform to GDB's current user and maintainer > base. How many bits of the HP-specific code work at all? When someone cuts a branch, a common mistake is to go off and start doing all sorts of stuff, but never actually finish it. I'm wondering how much of the code you're looking at falls into that category and can, as a consequence, simply be yanked. > Does anyone else have an opinion? If the consensus is that I'm out of > line, I guess it's time to go back to an older working tree and start > renaming... No, but someone did blink :-) Andrew