Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-07T17:11:37Z

> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:20:49 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> > I'd really like this to get some exposure in HEAD before backporting
> > it, but otherwise I do agree.

Sure, but IMHO the change doesn't need too much testing more than it
already got. Don't the developers use CVS HEAD most of the time?
Don't they use it mostly on IA32 (GNU/Linux or otherwise) systems? If
so, the patch is mostly tested.

> Remember, at present MIPS is dead in the water.

With backtraces misbehaving as they do now, I consider the x86 broken
almost as badly as the MIPS. As I told before, because of that bug, I
mistrusted GDB 6.1 to such a degree that I started to use GDB 5.x.

> For how long should we delay pushing out a fix for that?

A week or two won't do much harm, IMHO. But I doubt that we need even
that much.