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Re: Modernize solaris threads support.

> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:10:16 -0800
> From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, pedro@codesourcery.com, 
>  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> As another take on it, one thing I think we want to avoid is to make GDB 
> into a some kind of a museum of long-gone programming style.

I don't think prototypes are ``a long-gone programming style''.

The problem with changes that are not strictly needed for the patch at
hand is that they obscure the real change.  It's the same as lumping
several unrelated changes in one diff, which is discouraged here (and
rightfully so).
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