From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8097 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2004 16:45:00 -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 8026 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2004 16:44:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hawaii.kealia.com) (209.3.10.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2004 16:44:57 -0000 Received: by hawaii.kealia.com (Postfix, from userid 2049) id 0199BC789; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:44:56 -0800 (PST) To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) Cc: cagney@gnu.org, eliz@elta.co.il, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0 References: <20040318162402.A32E34B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> From: David Carlton Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040318162402.A32E34B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> (Michael Elizabeth Chastain's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:24:02 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-03.o/txt/msg00428.txt Message-ID: <20040318164500.2iU-EnIJktUMWk-B-Bo-hO9dF-wRT1VMyRBSBKAw4fA@z> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:24:02 -0500 (EST), mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) said: > The actual part of PROBLEMS that you're objecting to is the > paragraphs which talk about setting breakpoints in constructors in > C++ code. This doesn't work with gcc v3 because gcc v3 emits > multiple copies of the object code, and gdb sets the breakpoint in > just one of them. > Before PROBLEMS talked about this, we got several reports per month > about this issue. Now we don't get any. And for each user that > takes the trouble to e-mail us, there are many more users who run > into the issue and appreciate having a short description of it. > I think we should keep that part of PROBLEMS as long as gdb has this > problem. I agree. I can see the point of mentioning fiddling little regressions once in PROBLEMS and then deleting the entry on subsequent releases, even if the regressions remain. But it makes sense to me to leave important, frequently encountered bugs in PROBLEMS. David Carlton carlton@kealia.com