Re: Is it time to remove INTERNAL_FIELD?

[Oleh Krehel]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> It shows up as unrecognized command for me.  I see it defined in
>> .gdbinit, but it's automatically sourced. How can I source it?
>
> You can source it manually like this:
>
>  (gdb) source .gdbinit
>
> If you start GDB from the src directory, it should read that file
> automatically.  However, latest versions of GDB refuse to do that, for
> security reasons, unless you customize GDB to countermand that (the
> message GDB displays when it refuses to load the file hints on these
> customizations; read the GDB manual to know more).
>
> See etc/DEBUG for more about debugging Emacs on the C level.

Thanks.

>> I saw that there was a change 3 years ago adding "_" to ends of some
>> symbols. This change was subsequently reverted, and it supposedly worked
>> fine for 3 years. So I'm guessing that there is a mechanism that makes
>> it work without modifying with symbols with "_".
>
> No, there is no such mechanism.  You will find "name_" in .gdbinit.
> Those changes you mention are probably about changes in the sources
> that were reverted later.

OK, I see it now. The only two occurences that I found for
"_\([^a-z]\|$\)" were "name_". I've pushed the change.
Is there anything else that needs to be done before merging?

Oleh