From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32195 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2006 05:57:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 32186 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Mar 2006 05:57:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (HELO xproxy.gmail.com) (66.249.82.202) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:57:40 +0000 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s17so218634wxc for ; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:57:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.29.4 with SMTP id c4mr2900504wxc; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.125.17 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:57:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0603012157t13a0c38dy64455acbabddbd23@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:57:00 -0000 From: "Jim Blandy" To: "Randolph Chung" Subject: Re: RFC: getting rid of deprecated_hp_som_som_object_present Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <4405B9C0.90505@tausq.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4405B9C0.90505@tausq.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On 3/1/06, Randolph Chung wrote: > Any thoughts? Is this even worth touching/fixing? "Worth"? I'm always tempted to assess the "worth" of a project by how ugly what it would fix is... :) I think that global variable is really terrible. And as the Modula-2 example showed, the change is getting propagated around. Given that C99 specifies that enum values are ints, would it make sense to always print enum values specially if the the enum type's size is not equal to that of builtin_type_int?