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Re: [PATCH] Remove required field in agent's symbols
- From: Pierre Langlois <pierre dot langlois at arm dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, pierre dot langlois at arm dot com
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:30:34 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove required field in agent's symbols
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On 06/08/15 12:02, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 08/06/2015 11:48 AM, Pierre Langlois wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While looking at the in-process agent I noticed shared symbols between
>> GDBserver and the IPA could be marked as <required>. This field was never
>> set nor used so this patch removes it.
>
> OK.
Thanks Pedro, I've pushed this in.
Pierre
>
> Yeah, IIRC, that was meant for providing backwards compatibility when new
> symbols are added. But we never did that. Given the tight coupling
> between gdbserver and ipa, adding the field back if we ever need it is such
> a minor detail...
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
>