Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Andrew Cagney
2004-08-07T17:38:18Z

Mark, Eli is pressing hard for, I guess you, to do an accelerated
backport. What do you think?

Andrew

>>Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:20:49 -0400
>>> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>>>
>>> Mark wrote:
>>>
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>>>> > 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.
>