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Re: "Transfer rate" patch

From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>
To: Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs dot msu dot su>
Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:40:54 +0100
Subject: Re: "Transfer rate" patch
References: <44FD2640.7080605@ronetix.at> <edlsab$kvl$1@sea.gmane.org>

Vladimir Prus wrote:

You've changed the code to output the number of bytes and changes the text
to read "bytes" the the name of output field is still 'transferred-bits'.
I'm not sure this matters (maybe in MI mode), but in any way, you should
adjust that.

I'm not sure what the policy is on these things, but I think that arbitrarily changing field names (and values) unnecessarily breaks compatibility with tools that use MI mode.

References:
- "Transfer rate" patch
  - From: Ilko Iliev
- Re: "Transfer rate" patch
  - From: Vladimir Prus

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