Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0

Andrew Cagney
2004-03-17T23:39:50Z

>>There are problems in all the releases, we don't list them.
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> The title of the file is "Known problems in GDB 6.1".
> Indeed, I would like it to actually list all the known problems.
> We just don't have the resources to do this yet.
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>>> The objective here is to draw the users attention to places where gdb is
>>> both better and worse than the _last_ release (6.0). Not a sorry list
>>> of problems dateing back to version 0.0.
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> NEWS dates back to version 0.0, so I think that PROBLEMS should as well.

I don't.

NEWS contains a history of GDB, PROBLEMS does not.

PROBLEMS is there to identify late breaking screwups and other issues in
just _this_ release. It provides only immediate information, and should
even be cleared out just after each release.

Andrew