From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii To: jason-swarelist@molenda.com Cc: dan@cgsoftware.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] bug in symtab.c:lookup_block_symbol()'s search method Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:15:00 -0000 Message-id: <200109160715.JAA07114@is.elta.co.il> References: <7370175E-AA1B-11D5-94ED-0030657B5340@cgsoftware.com> <20010915140234.A17079@shell17.ba.best.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00201.html > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:02:35 -0700 > From: Jason Molenda > > 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.