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Re: [RFA] Improve "start" command for Ada
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:01:52 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Improve "start" command for Ada
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Joel Brobecker writes:
> Hello Elena,
>
> Do you think you would have some time to look at this? The review
> process stalled more than 3 months ago, and it would be nice to get
> the problem fixed. In the meantime, I will KFAIL the tests in gdb.ada
> that rely on the "start" command.
It would be useful if you pointed to the last version of the patch to
look at. Is this the last one?
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-10/msg00365.html
If so, can you please add a comment about what could be done instead
of calling ada_main_name directly?
Something like what you wrote:
> > If you want, what we can do is replace the hard-coded call to
> > ada_main_name() by a loop of calls to a new language method,
> > looping on all languages until we find a positive match. That
> > way, the hard wiring to Ada disappears.
Otherwise ok