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Re: [PATCH] Remove required field in agent's symbols
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Pierre Langlois <pierre dot langlois at arm dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:02:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove required field in agent's symbols
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On 08/06/2015 11:48 AM, Pierre Langlois wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While looking at the in-process agent I noticed shared symbols between
> GDBserver and the IPA could be marked as <required>. This field was never
> set nor used so this patch removes it.
OK.
Yeah, IIRC, that was meant for providing backwards compatibility when new
symbols are added. But we never did that. Given the tight coupling
between gdbserver and ipa, adding the field back if we ever need it is such
a minor detail...
Thanks,
Pedro Alves