From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11236 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2002 02:01:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11227 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2002 02:01:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pizda.ninka.net) (216.101.162.242) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2002 02:01:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (IDENT:davem@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pizda.ninka.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18137; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:52:17 -0700 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:01:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20020420.185217.124826922.davem@redhat.com> To: ac131313@cygnus.com Cc: msnyder@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Sparc/Linux fixes part 1 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20020419.194417.101826241.davem@redhat.com> References: <20020419.190949.100077712.davem@redhat.com> <3CC0D67F.5060504@cygnus.com> <20020419.194417.101826241.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00699.txt.bz2 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:44:17 -0700 (PDT) I can't "look at the bfd and elf bits" to "find out" what the long double type size is. The information simply isn't there. Michael or someone, can we please bring closure to these issues? I've believe I've described my delimma ad nauseum at this point. Now, if debugging information contained the size/layout of fundamental C types, we could solve this using that. But I somehow doubt this information is provided that way. On another topic, I have like 10 or so RFAs pending, and nobody provides any feedback. Yet someone else submits a patch after all of mine and it gets an RFA quite quickly. It's not like I'm submitting jumbo patches or anything, what gives? I want to maintain and fix up the Sparc port, but I cannot do that with multi-day lead times on patch review for even the most simple of changes. If nobody has the time to review my changes, then lets vote on letting me be the Sparc maintainer because I do have the time to keep it in good shape. If the answer is "we don't have the time, and no you can't become the Sparc maintainer", how the heck is someone supposed to become a significant contributor to GDB? :( I want to work on new bugs, failures in the testsuite, but I really ought not to do that until my existing work is sorted out.