From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31229 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2015 17:35:00 -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 31096 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jan 2015 17:34:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:34:58 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t05HYrxt022683 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 12:34:53 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t05HYfP2005124; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 12:34:47 -0500 Message-ID: <54AACB30.2020909@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:35:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker , Stan Shebs CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: remove "info dll" alias to "info sharedlibraries"? References: <20141230075437.GG2123@adacore.com> <54A333AE.1030904@earthlink.net> <20141231073147.GB5445@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20141231073147.GB5445@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 On 12/31/2014 07:31 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> 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 :-)). If it stays, it's best to move it to windows-tdep.c so that it's available when cross debugging Windows from a non-Windows host too. Or to solib.c, even. Thanks, Pedro Alves