Re: [RFA] bug in symtab.c:lookup_block_symbol()'s search method

Andrew Cagney
2001-09-17T22:56:00Z

>> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:02:35 -0700
>> From: Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>
>>
>> I'd like to stay focused on the topic on hand for now. This
>> discussion is about gdb currently experiencing a serious performance
>> regression wrt the last release of gdb, and I'm submitting a patch
>> to fix that. I'd like to see this problem addressed before 5.1 goes
>> out.
>
>
> Why do you think it needs to be addressed in 5.1? AFAIK, the fact
> that the release branch was cut means that only relatively safe
> bugfixes are accepted on the branch. This change doesn't seem safe
> enough IMHO, since we still continue arguing whether there are or
> aren't cases where Dan's change matters.

The suggested criteria for committing something to the 5.1 branch are:

o does it build (and if not did it build in 5.0/4.18)

o does ``break main; run'' work

Jason, you've indicate that this seriously hurts Apple's GDB branch.
Since (FSF) GDB has never worked on MacOS X, I don't think hurting
Apple's GDB branch is really qualifies as a reason for getting something
into 5.1 of GDB (The trunk yes definitly, just not the branch).

The reason 5.1 has got hung up is because people have found platforms
that suffered more basic bit rot :-(

Andrew