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Re: [rfc][15/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Dereferencing of integer types
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: uweigand at de dot ibm dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:01:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: [rfc][15/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Dereferencing of integer types
- References: <20080831175045.128504000@de.ibm.com> <20080831175126.215914000@de.ibm.com>
> It might make sense to check for which languages this extension
> is actually useful, and remove it from the rest.
I know that this doesn't make sense in Ada, but I'm always uncomfortable
removing "features" when I don't know who might be relying on it. It's
reasonably easy to provide that features, so I wouldn't mind keeping it,
at least for C/C++/etc languages and Ada.
My 2 cents...
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Joel