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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Request change name of function lookup_enum in libbabeltrace to make GDB use this lib
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANFwon2LiWpe7nN-Ru9WpByrcu6WcGOFOebmY4ST4DqEE7CkFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201212061051.qB6Ap9CU012302@new.toad.com>

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:51 PM, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:
> I suggest that it's best if both GDB and Libbabeltrace change the name
> of lookup_enum.  That way you'll be able to compile any version of GDB
> with any version of libbabeltrace (fixed or unfixed) and all four
> combinations will work except "unfixed GDB" and "unfixed
> libbabeltrace").
>
> If you just change it in the library, gdb stops building on machines that
> have the old library.
>
> If you just change it in GDB, older gdb's won't be compatible with
> newer libraries.  Hmm, but older gdb's don't link with that library
> anyway.  So you might as well just fix it in GDB; that works for all
> cases.
>
>         John

Thanks, John.

Hi Tom, What do you think about the suggest from John?

Thanks,
Hui


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-06 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-05 11:38 Hui Zhu
2012-12-05 12:08 ` [lttng-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-12-05 12:22   ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-06 15:57   ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-06 16:21     ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-06 16:25       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-12-10  8:31     ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-10 14:05       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-12-11 15:19         ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-20 13:47           ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-20 14:16             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-12-21  2:58               ` Hui Zhu
2013-01-07 21:19                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-01-09 19:48                   ` [BABELTRACE PATCH] Namespace the lookup_enum function Julien Desfossez
2013-01-13 17:58                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-01-24 17:43                       ` [lttng-dev] " Julien Desfossez
2013-01-25 11:17                         ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-06 10:51 ` Request change name of function lookup_enum in libbabeltrace to make GDB use this lib John Gilmore
2012-12-06 12:13   ` Hui Zhu [this message]
2012-12-06 15:38   ` Pedro Alves

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