Re: [rfa] delete 'force_return' from lookup_symbol_aux_minsyms

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
 > I'm not following the thread so I'm not sure what patch you're referring
 > to.  But if you want to give me a URL for a patch, any time this weekend
 > or the beginning of next week is a good time for testbedding.
 > 

I am not sure if David committed it yet, but the patch it at the
bottom of:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-12/msg00560.html
Maybe you already tested it!

 > It takes roughly 5 hours to test all configurations on one version of
 > gdb now -- I am not in a position to testbed lots of patches.  The big
 > time sink is that I test (all gdb) * (all binutils) and there are lots
 > of each of them.  It's much faster if I run just one test script, but
 > for a symbol table lookup patch, I want to run the whole suite.
 > 

Yes, that's why i thought your system was the perfect one for this.

 > The build time for gcc is increasing even worse than Gate's Law, also.
 > (Gates' Law: every 18 months, the speed of software halves).
 > 

:-(

 > Michael C
 > Gripe, gripe.

Elena