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Re: Disable gdb.threads-hp
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:00:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: Disable gdb.threads-hp
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
> A GDB convention is to add an ``OBSOLETE'' prefix to code like this -
> that way people using search scripts can ignore those lines. In
> addition, GDB takes a pretty ruthless aproach to such code and deletes
> it after the next release.
>
> Since this is tcl, I suspect the prefix should be:
>
> # OBSOLETE
>
> can I suggest also adding that.
FWIW, GDB has a much saner method for dealing with obsolete stuff than GCC;
hopefully GCC can learn something from how y'all are handling these kinds of
issues.
Presumably you just want an OBSOLETE marker at the top of those test files?
jeff