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Re: [RFA] make first parameter of to_lookup_symbol const char *
On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Monday 14 March 2011 10:13:43, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>
>> is there any good reason why the NAME parameter is 'char *' instead of 'const char *' ? I can't see any of them.
>
> Old code. Original K&R didn't know about const. We have a lot of places
> that could/should be const but aren't. It's an ongoing slow cleanup.
>
>>
>> This patch was tested only by recompiling gdb for powerpc-elf.
>>
>> BTW, it looks like no target defines this operation...
>
> Are you going to add a use of it? Otherwise, I'd rather
> just getting rid of it.
No.
Joel, can we remove that ? I thought we were using it for dfw, but we don't anymore.
Tristan.