From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16648 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2007 19:07:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 16635 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Oct 2007 19:07:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:07:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6422AC5BA; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:07:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id my6rwqEfd43z; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:07:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24442AC5B2; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39D6CE7B58; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:07:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Pierre Muller , 'Pedro Alves' , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Stabs parsing regression from GDB 6.6 to GDB 6.6.90 Message-ID: <20071003190741.GD4305@adacore.com> References: <46F56F04.6070601@portugalmail.pt> <46F707C3.1090105@portugalmail.pt> <006101c7fe8b$70d5af70$52810e50$@u-strasbg.fr> <4053daab0709240321n40d7e3e0vc0f7d5567e990785@mail.gmail.com> <006701c7feae$fbb75850$f32608f0$@u-strasbg.fr> <46F8C1C8.7080608@portugalmail.pt> <46F9A061.2020909@portugalmail.pt> <001b01c805b5$ce7f0730$6b7d1590$@u-strasbg.fr> <20071003184156.GC4305@adacore.com> <20071003185126.GA1976@caradoc.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071003185126.GA1976@caradoc.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 > I think it's a bad idea to ship a release of GDB with a new bug that > we know about, which wasn't present in the previous release. I try to maintain the right balance. A hard-to-fix minor and infrequent regression is probably better than a fix that might cause other regressions. The stabsread patch is somewhere in the middle between and obvious fix, and the hard-to-fix, so it was not obvious to me which decision to take. I also trust Pedro and Pierre, this is not an issue for me. But I would like an extra pair of eyes like yours to confirm that this patch is safe for the branch. With that in mind, it becomes perfectly reasonable to put this patch in the branch as well. Note that the 6.7 release is currently scheduled in a week from now. If this is an important issue, we might have to delay it if the patch hasn't been approved at that time. -- Joel