On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 14:23 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:17:28 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Yes, I think we should encourage people to use the more generic
> functions from now on. But no, I don't think actually removing them from
> the libdw.h header is a good idea. IMHO we shouldn't force people to
> rewrite their code if they were using the old functions already (even if
> we can do it in a binary compatible way). It is just that in new code
> one can use the new functions generically.
So one should move those two old functions to the ports branch? They have no
meaning for new code in trunk, they are there only for backward compatibility
with legacy code.
Or do you think anyone would prefer the API of those new functions?
(Maybe so, not sure.)
BTW I do not mind and you are the maintainer IIUC, it was just such an idea.
I like to believe we try to get at least somewhat of a consensus on the
list for new functionality. So if you don't mind then I do like to keep
the old functions just as is. I do care deeply we don't break binary
compatibility nor source compatibility if at all possible. It isn't that
the old functions are now wrong, we just provide a more generic way to
do the same thing (and for more OPs).
Cheers,
Mark