From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 17 11:03:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA06304 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:03:24 -0800 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA06275; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:03:14 -0800 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA15656 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Fri, 17 Mar 1995 21:59:38 +0300 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Fri, 17 Mar 95 21:59:37 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA01611; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 22:01:09 +0300 To: Nate Williams Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Nate Williams , ports@FreeBSD.org References: <199503170627.XAA04430@trout.sri.MT.net> <199503171542.IAA14700@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199503171542.IAA14700@trout.sri.MT.net>; from Nate Williams at Fri, 17 Mar 1995 08:42:08 -0700 Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 22:01:09 +0300 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.32 FreeBSD] From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: What programs use libreadline? Lines: 22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1145 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199503171542.IAA14700@trout.sri.MT.net> Nate Williams writes: >I already explained that the copystring() routine is now deprecated >according to all the comments in the code, so I would like to remove it >from libreadline since it is in conflict with the newest versions of >gdb. It's much easier to change libreadline to DTRT in the long run >than it is to always merge in those changes everytime we bring up a new >gdb port. But, before I go off and do this I want to see if any of the >ports still use copystring() since it is deprecated, and if many of them >do then I'll punt and modify gdb instead. Sorry, I misunderstand you a bit. We don't have newest version of gdb, it is 4.14. I'll check -current gdb & readline to see, what savestring does in both sources, but do you say that you already have ld patch for it, or not? -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849