From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6858 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2014 07:31:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 6845 invoked by uid 89); 31 Dec 2014 07:31:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:31:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679CF116322; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 02:31:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 7oyH-3RODXi5; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 02:31:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35F2116320; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 02:31:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F01E74100E; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:31:47 +0400 (RET) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:31:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Stan Shebs Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: remove "info dll" alias to "info sharedlibraries"? Message-ID: <20141231073147.GB5445@adacore.com> References: <20141230075437.GG2123@adacore.com> <54A333AE.1030904@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54A333AE.1030904@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00691.txt.bz2 > What's the basis for believing that "we've already trained the users"? We've made the "dll-*" commands deprecated, and now just removed them. > With a little poking around the net, I did notice a couple examples > where people were reporting "info dll" results. But in practice I > suspect that most GDB-using Windows developers are working on multiple > platforms, and they're likely to prefer commands that work everywhere. I only found a couple of instances myself, from 2005 and 2008. > On the other hand, "info dll" has been documented for a long time, > and is only one line of extra code - seems like more work to remove > than to leave it alone. > > I do think we can dump the hook and just use add_info_alias. I don't > remember exactly why the hook seemed necessary in the first place, but > the timing suggests I added it for gdbtk or MPW (or both. :-) ). But I agree it's been documented for a long time. Let's see if I can just keep the alias without the hook (on my next rainy day :-)). -- Joel