From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 88106 invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2018 14:28:48 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 88096 invoked by uid 89); 19 Sep 2018 14:28:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=contribute, person X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:28:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43A956018; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:28:44 -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 i5ur1N7zqM1Z; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CD056017; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A1CCE85884; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:28:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Simon Marchi Cc: Tom Tromey , Xavier Roirand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA 2/5] Darwin: Handle unrelocated dyld. Message-ID: <20180919142842.GO19172@adacore.com> References: <1534932677-9496-1-git-send-email-roirand@adacore.com> <1534932677-9496-3-git-send-email-roirand@adacore.com> <18e995c1bee8c82df212dd431136d259@polymtl.ca> <87lg7ysdpb.fsf@tromey.com> <20180919134057.GN19172@adacore.com> <87d657aa82a5a114995d8035c4f2f125@polymtl.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d657aa82a5a114995d8035c4f2f125@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00687.txt.bz2 > Given the low amount of resources we have to work on GDB for macOS and the > fact that it's difficult for one person to test on different versions of > macOS (you would need multiple Mac computers, AFAIK), I suggest that we only > aim at supporting the last two released versions of macOS. I say two, > because there will always be an overlap after a new version is released, > where some people use the new version and others have not upgraded yet. That makes a lot of sense to me. If we agree, let's document that somewhere. I'm not sure where the best place might be. Maybe this wiki page? https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDarwin > If some people use older versions of macOS and want to contribute patches > and help testing, that's fine too, but if everybody contributing is on > latest or latest-1, we can't realistically ensure it works on previous > versions. > > That said, I agree that it would be very helpful if commit messages and > comments in the code mentioned the version of macOS that was used at the > time that commit message or comment was written. -- Joel