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Re: Modernize solaris threads support.


Tom Tromey wrote:
"Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> It's a matter of personal preferences


Thanks for explaining.

Eli> I also dislike gratuitous changes in code that is there for at least 9
Eli> years.

Describing other people's considered changes as gratuitous has a
negative effect. I am sure Pedro did not think this was gratuitous
when he wrote it; in fact, he explained why he did it.
As another take on it, one thing I think we want to avoid is to make GDB into a some kind of a museum of long-gone programming style. Yes, it can be handy to have annotation show that some line hasn't changed in 15 years (although the value of that is not so much when the lines have complicated interactions with each other). But we simply read the code more often than we run cvs annotate, and we want to attract new developers, so the general style of the code should be as modern and as sophisticated as is consistent with our other requirements. Also, while we might like somebody to take on wholesale mass updates as a separate task, that can result in us waiting for a long time, while the code gets older and moldier every day. Incremental progress is messier, but it's still progress!

Stan


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