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Re: [PATCH] Get rid of DEPRECATED_PC_IN_CALL_DUMMY in i386-tdep.c


I was looking at the DEPRECATED_PC_IN_CALL_DUMMY use in arm-tdep.c last 
night and I came to the conclusion that I hadn't a clue what I was 
supposed to do to remove it.  Is all the code dead?  Does it all need 
translating into pc_in_dummy_frame?  etc, etc.

Could I suggest that when we deprecate a call some documentation is added 
*somewhere* saying what sort of things (I accept that it might not be a 
trivial substitution) should be used to replace existing deprecated code.  
One possible place would be in gdbarch.sh, though that's constrained a 
bit.  doc/deprecated.texinfo?

something of the form

->> DEPRECATED_PC_IN_CALL_DUMMY:  Replace with calls to XXX or YYY as 
appropriate using the new ZZZ methods for doing wibble.

This would then be a key for things to look up in the manual (the new 
methods are documented, right?) to understand how it's all supposed to 
work.

R.


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