Re: [PATCH 1/3] Remove spurious exceptions.h inclusions

[Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> wrote:
>> defs.h includes utils.h, and utils.h includes exceptions.h.  All GDB
>> .c files include defs.h as their first line, so no file other than
>> utils.h needs to include exceptions.h.  This commit removes all such
>> inclusions.
>>
>> Doug, I Cc'd you on this one as you asked me to avoid giant mechanical
>> ChangeLog entries but I couldn't figure out how I'd rewrite this one.
>
> For reference sake,
> I said that for two reasons:
> 1) to save you some typing
> 2) to keep the S/N ratio of the ChangeLog file from dropping, and in
> this case from dropping significantly.  Yikes!
>
>> gdb/ChangeLog:
>>
>>         * ada-lang.c: Do not include exceptions.h.
>>         * ada-valprint.c: Likewise.
>>         * amd64-tdep.c: Likewise.
>> [...]
>
> I realize one of the guidelines for changelogs is to document every
> file that's changed, but if we can agree that "All callers updated."
> can apply to all callers in all files, then I don't see why we
> couldn't be ok with something like the following for this case:
>
>         * All .c files: Do not include exceptions.h.
>
> Yeah, it's not pedantically correct, not all .c files were touched.
> But I can live with that given the alternative.

Actually, exceptions.c still includes exceptions.h.

I'd be ok with changing the above entry to "* Most .c files: Do not
include exceptions.h."

Plus, was not removing exceptions.h from exceptions.c an oversight?
[I can't remember if this was discussed in the thread.]