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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Remaining builtin_types (potential flag day)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41097845.1060100@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vt23c3bagyx.fsf@zenia.home>

> Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>>> There are currently ~1400 occurances of /builtin_type_/ in GDB's
>>> source. While some are ok (builtin_type_ieee...*) many are not
>>> (typically needing a conversion to builtin_type()).
>>> 
>>> For the moment we can let these remaining uses be migrated
>>> incrementally (chance has it someone will find an interface change
>>> (1)).  However, eventually, well have to change all remaining
>>> references.  Given their magnitude, this suggests a "Flag Day".
> 
> 
> By 'flag day', you mean one day in which all references are changed,
> and the old definitions are deleted?

_remaining_, yes.


      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-29 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-28 20:00 Andrew Cagney
2004-07-28 23:09 ` Jim Blandy
2004-07-29 23:27   ` Andrew Cagney [this message]

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