From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22444 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2004 01:20:57 -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 22309 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2004 01:20:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 16 Nov 2004 01:20:42 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTs1L-0008Fi-9y; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:20:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:20:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Eli Zaretskii , mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, joseph@codesourcery.com, kevinb@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Assume solib.h Message-ID: <20041116012035.GA31575@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Eli Zaretskii , mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, joseph@codesourcery.com, kevinb@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <4193BFA0.3060607@gnu.org> <200411112005.iABK5FrV098628@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <4193DDCE.7060205@gnu.org> <200411112224.iABMODmo099121@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <4194DBEB.6010304@gnu.org> <01c4c8db$Blat.v2.2.2$377f5020@zahav.net.il> <419942CB.4000905@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <419942CB.4000905@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00322.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:59:07PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >I'm with Mark on this one: a patch that potentially breaks a supported > >platform doesn't get my vote. If a platform is supported, it deserves > >that we don't break it, and calling it ``marginal'' doesn't change > >anything. > > Eli, can you perhaphs explain what exactly you mean by "supported", how > the GNU project benefits by expending already limited resources on > continually fixing vax-ultrix - a non GNU system, and how my change > breaks it? Mark wrote: >please don't check in something like this without testing >this on some sort of embedded target, vax-dec-openbsd* or >vax-dec-ultrix4*. Vax is by no means an embedded target, so I think his meaning is fairly clear - it's a sample target on which GDB does not support shared libraries. Please don't try to change the subject by fixating on the Vax. Could you explain what _you_ mean by supported? My interpretation is that a platform on which GDB works, deliberately by included code rather than accidentally through support for some other platform, is obviously "supported". We've gone to some effort to add the support and breaking it is a disservice to our users. -- Daniel Jacobowitz