Re: KSYMS_CLOSEST

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 09:20:49 +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> IIRC it was to match the ddb "sift" command.

I'm not sure I get how it might be used for sifting - a kind of "next"
for external iteration?  Since we never got around to do that do we
still want to keep it, or shall we deprecate/delete it?


> Den 2022-12-25 kl. 01:01, skrev Valery Ushakov:
> > KSYMS_CLOSEST flag is documented as "Nearest lower match".  However as
> > far as I can tell nothing in ksyms code ever pays attention to this
> > flag and it's not clear to me what meaning one can ascribe to the set
> > of flags that doesn't have KSYMS_CLOSEST set.
> > 
> > Ragge, do you remember what did you have in mind for it when you
> > introduced it back in 2003?
> > 
> > I think we should g/c it.
> > 
> > -uwe

-uwe