Re: [patch/rfc] Eliminate TARGET_HAS_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS

Andrew Cagney
2004-09-15T16:11:47Z

>>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:46:05 -0400
>>> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>>> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>>>
>>
>>>> > Great! So you've gone out and committed a patch over an objection of
>>>> > a core maintainer who worked quite a bit on the releated code.
>>
>>>
>>> No. The changes that in anyway formalize the deprecation of all this:
>>> [...]
>>> and that you have so stridently objected to, are still all sitting on
>>> the table.
>
>
> That doesn't matter: you still did something unilaterally instead of
> first asking if that is okay with me and others.

Can you please provide a technical objection for the patch I committed.
None, that were not resolved, were identified during this discussion.

> No matter how much you are annoyed by failing to get an agreement, it
> doesn't mean you should do things unilaterally. There's nothing
> wrong, in principle, in the fact that I object to something ``so
> stridently''; others, yourself included, are known to use the same
> practices on many occasions. AFIR, no one has as yet committed a
> patch over your objections in such a situation. I request that you do
> the same here and in similar cases in the future.

I've posted my fair share of "whatever"s.

Andrew