From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29954 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2002 22:10:57 -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 29869 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2002 22:10:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (205.232.38.247) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 22:10:55 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id 4FACFD2CBD; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:10:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Jim Blandy ] Re: RFA: don't read coff line number unless we have symbols too Message-ID: <20020820221057.GK25997@gnat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00623.txt.bz2 Jim, > Joel, you said this patch caused you some problems, and asked me to > put it on hold until you had more data. Can you verify that this does > indeed break something? I'm pretty confident that you were observing > something else. I am so sorry you put on hold this change for so long because of me. Something must have been wrong during the mail transfer because I sent you a private message on June 25: << Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:22:01 -0700 From: Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: RFA: don't read coff line number unless we have symbols too To: Jim Blandy > Sure. > > It's supposed to be semantically undetectable, except for not reading > the line number info. The code simply makes GDB not read info from > the executable that it will never use. If that expectation is > incorrect, I definitely want to know. Thank you Jim. Just to avoid any misunderstanding, Paul Hilfinger took over this issue, so you don't need to wait on me. Last I saw, the Interix case was fine too, so it looks like our initial fears were unjustified. >> -- Joel