[RFC] Suggested ways to remove the need for xm-go32.h

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Thu Sep 23 08:14:00 GMT 2004


On Sep 19 13:44, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>        Alternatively, we could make the definition of GDBINIT_FILENAME
>        local to top.c, and modify cli-cmds.c to use the global variable
>        gdbinit[] instead of the macro.
> 
> Why not have a list of files to try?  That would mean we'd always try
> "gdb.ini" if ".gdbinit" fails, even on Unix.

That's a good idea, IMHO.  I never really liked the situation that an
application uses different names for config files on different systems.
Using a list of filenames makes all systems equal again :-)

>    3.  CRLF_SOURCE_FILES: Here I suggest to make GDB understand CR-LF
>        style files on all supported systems.  [...]
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me.

ACK.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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