Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-09T19:09:28Z

> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:52:17 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>
> week 1.5: 6.2.1:
> Critical MIPS problem fixed.
> Fix for long-standing i386 bug known (needs 2 weeks testing)
>
> week 4.0: 6.2.2:
> Long standing bug on old i386 systems fixed.
>
> Does this seem reasonable.

No.

Sorry, you didn't answer my question, so I'll try to explain what bugs
me: it's the logic behind these decisions that I cannot grasp.

That is, if fixing MIPS is so important, then why did we release GDB
6.2 without waiting for the fix? And if it wasn't important enough
for 6.2 to wait for it, why can't it wait for a couple of weeks and be
released in 6.2.1 together with the i386 prologue analyzer fix?

I need to understand how to reconcile these two contradicting moves in
order to judge whether I can live with the decision, whatever it is.