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Re: [COMMIT PATCH 2/2] Move savestring to common/common-utils.c, make gdbserver use it.


On 02/14/2013 06:24 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Pedro> Yeah...  It'd be an easier sell if libiberty wasn't such a
> Pedro> kitchen sink.  I know that parts of libiberty would be problematic
> Pedro> for the Windows CE (I know, it's rotten by now), not sure about
> Pedro> other ports.
> 
> I suppose my main concern here is that the gdb/gdbserver unification
> project will end up needing to reimplement chunks of libiberty.
> But that would be a bad result, since libiberty already exists.

Understood and agreed.  I just prefer to cross that bridge when we
come to it.  BTW, I think with ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR, the fact that libiberty
is at the top level and gdbserver isn't is no longer a problem.  That's
what we use to  configure the gnulib/ dir under gdbserver.

> I don't really care so much about this particular function.
> It is small, it doesn't really matter.  The xstrndup name is better
> (IMO), but unimportantly so.

-- 
Pedro Alves


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