From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25167 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2011 16:52:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 25157 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Oct 2011 16:52:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:52:14 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1RCDef-0000OQ-QQ from pedro_alves@mentor.com ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:52:14 -0700 Received: from scottsdale.localnet ([172.16.63.104]) by EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:52:11 +0100 From: Pedro Alves To: Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: [RFA/RFC] Restore old handling of multi-register variables Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:52:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-11-generic; KDE/4.7.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <1317675787-7351-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <201110062159.55379.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20111007163812.GT19246@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20111007163812.GT19246@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110071752.09555.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-10/txt/msg00203.txt.bz2 On Friday 07 October 2011 17:38:12, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Worse case scenario, we can put this workaround in the 7.4 branch... That I'll object in principle. :-) We should not put fixes in a branch that we don't fix on the trunk. That's bad practice that lends itself to a bug being forgotten and reappearing on the next release. Best put it both on the trunk and on the branch, and then replace the fix with a better one on the trunk when we have it. -- Pedro Alves