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Re: [PATCH] Add support for embedding scripts in .debug_gdb_scripts.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:01:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for embedding scripts in .debug_gdb_scripts.
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:15:35 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> >> +* Python/Guile scripting
> >> +
> >> +** GDB now supports auto-loading of Python/Guile scripts contained in the
> >> + special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts'.
> >
> > I think we should tell here on what systems/targets this is supported.
> > Otherwise, the NEWS entry is OK.
>
> The previous news entry didn't, and I'm following that.
So we have no hope for ever fixing past mistakes?
> > Let's be consistent here" "null", lower-case and with 2 'l'. This is
> > just a plain English word, not an acronym or a C symbol.
>
> NULL is a typo, thanks for catching that.
> I'm just following usage elsewhere in gdb.texinfo,
> and I like this choice.
So we have no hope for ever fixing past mistakes?
> >> +The rest of the entry, up to the trailing NUL byte,
> > ^^^
> > "null"
>
> Copied from gdb.texinfo.
> Plus we've had this conversation before. :-)
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00892.html
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00894.html
So we have no hope for ever fixing past mistakes?