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Re: [PATCH] gdbadmin/ss/gdb_ari.sh obsolete->regression
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr (Pierre Muller)
- Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com ('Joel Brobecker'), gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:53:32 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdbadmin/ss/gdb_ari.sh obsolete->regression
Pierre Mueller wrote:
> > > In the Legacy category:
> > >
> > > legacy_name (this doesn't exist any more; ARI finds a
> > > local variable with the same name)
>
> I looked at the code in remote.c,
> and I am not sure that this is not what is meant by this rule:
> there is no legacy_name in any ChangeLog, thus it is probably not=20
> a function.
>
> It looks like this legacy argument in add_packet_config_cmd
> add a "set/show remote" entry for
> "binary-download-packet" as an alias of "X-packet".
>
> I am wondering if this reminder is not that we should
> remove that old "binary-download-packet" entry.
> But then there is also still an entry for "binary-download in gdb.texinfo.
Ah, right, the LEGACY category is fully auto-generated anyway;
every identifier named legacy_... will be picked up automatically.
I'm not sure that we even want to get rid of the packet command
aliases; in any case, it's probably not something that needs to
be tracked by ARI, so we might want to change the name of that
local variable.
Bye,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com