From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31195 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2012 09:48:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 31176 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2012 09:48:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wildebeest.demon.nl (HELO gnu.wildebeest.org) (80.101.103.228) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:47:53 +0000 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:48:00 -0000 From: Mark Wielaard To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Gary Benson , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA take 4] Allow setting breakpoints on inline functions (PR 10738) Message-ID: <20120214094750.GB2439@toonder.wildebeest.org> References: <20120213184700.GA31170@redhat.com> <20120214093344.GA2439@toonder.wildebeest.org> <20120214093831.GA31790@host2.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120214093831.GA31790@host2.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) 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: 2012-02/txt/msg00256.txt.bz2 On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:33:45 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > I think you should keep the historical information about older > > versions and add precisely which symbols weren't included with > > version 5 that are now included with version 6 in the documentation > > of the gdb index format. That will be helpful for other producers > > and consumers of the .gdb_index section (elfutils/binutils readelf, > > gold --gdb-index option). > > So far GDB sources kept only documentation from the recognized formats. > Such change would have to be done retroactively. > > I do not think it makes sense to give much energy to deal with older formats, I am not suggesting to retroactive add more info on never documented versions, just to not remove existing documentation of the old versions. Version 4, 5 and 6 are all compatible to a consumer, having that documented is a good thing IMHO. Just having one extra line to document which symbols have been added in version 6 will also help other producers like gold --gdb-index. Thanks, Mark