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Re: [RFA/Windows] Remove ADD_SHARED_SYMBOL_FILES macro


On Monday 25 May 2009 23:57:25, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> >        (_initialize _symfile): Move "add-shared-symbol-files"
> >        command and "assf" alias.
> >        * windows-nat.c (_initialize_windows_nat): to here.
> >        Change "add-shared-symbol-files" to alias.
> 
> I propose we deprecate these aliases as well; does it really make sense
> to have 2 identical commands?
> 

Well, let me go the other way around.  Why is "dll-symbols" needed
at all?  Why isn't "add-symbol-file" good enough?  Other than the
ugly safe_symbol_file_add hack that would be nice to get rid of,
and setting OBJF_SHARED (itself dubious) it doesn't have anything Windows
specific at all (magically appending ".dll" doesn't count).

-- 
Pedro Alves


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