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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com> writes:
jtc> Is the tui interface supposed to be usable on all platforms?
Jim> Well, kind of. The code isn't up to the standards of the rest of
Jim> GDB --- for example, it contains HPPA-specific code --- and we
Jim> don't have a lot of resources allocated to clean it up.
TUI is clearly not up to GDB standards, which begs the question why it
was integrated in its current condition.
>> Perhaps the #include of tui headers needs to be removed from defs.h
>> and included in the handful of source files that interface with the
>> tui library.
Jim> If you could come up with a patch that:
Jim> - makes the TUI work on Linux,
Jim> - insulates the rest of GDB from curses's namespace problems, and
Jim> - doesn't perturb the rest of GDB much,
Jim> then I'd apply it.
TUI doesn't seem to offer me or the users I support much benefit, so
the only reason I have to do this is my desire to improve GDB. If I
have time, I may put some effort into it. However, IMO the onus for
bringing TUI to an acceptable belongs squarely on the shoulders of
those who contributed it.
--jtc
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J.T. Conklin
RedBack Networks