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Re: Get rid of underscore.c


Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

| Hi Jason,
| 
| > Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
| > 
| > But since it's never been much of a problem that both binutils and
| > gcc installed c++filt, I'd rather keep it in both.  So that, like DJ
| > says, if there is user confusion, we can always say `use the
| > latest'.
| 
| Jason - do you agree with this suggestion ?  I know that you feel that
| the binutils version does not really need to be there, but quite a few
| other people seem to like it.  Will it make your life unnecessarily
| difficult if we keep the two versions of the program and share the
| common code via libiberty ?

This is not meant to throw oil on the fire... but I feel like Jason,
I'm not convinced that there ought to be two versions of c++filt.
Each time, we duplicate things, we get back pains and confusions.  Is
it really that we do like pains and confusions?

-- Gaby


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