From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12719 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2004 23:39:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12709 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2004 23:39:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2004 23:39:49 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8362B92; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:39:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4058E1C6.70605@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:39:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0 References: <20040317225423.E42474B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> In-Reply-To: <20040317225423.E42474B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03.o/txt/msg00415.txt >>There are problems in all the releases, we don't list them. > > > The title of the file is "Known problems in GDB 6.1". > Indeed, I would like it to actually list all the known problems. > We just don't have the resources to do this yet. > > >>> The objective here is to draw the users attention to places where gdb is >>> both better and worse than the _last_ release (6.0). Not a sorry list >>> of problems dateing back to version 0.0. > > > NEWS dates back to version 0.0, so I think that PROBLEMS should as well. I don't. NEWS contains a history of GDB, PROBLEMS does not. PROBLEMS is there to identify late breaking screwups and other issues in just _this_ release. It provides only immediate information, and should even be cleared out just after each release. Andrew From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12719 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2004 23:39:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12709 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2004 23:39:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2004 23:39:49 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8362B92; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:39:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4058E1C6.70605@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:09:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0 References: <20040317225423.E42474B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> In-Reply-To: <20040317225423.E42474B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00415.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20040319000900.dUBouMgDwkDPnEU9VoXUfP7tKNhn7G_xa743pHnjmS8@z> >>There are problems in all the releases, we don't list them. > > > The title of the file is "Known problems in GDB 6.1". > Indeed, I would like it to actually list all the known problems. > We just don't have the resources to do this yet. > > >>> The objective here is to draw the users attention to places where gdb is >>> both better and worse than the _last_ release (6.0). Not a sorry list >>> of problems dateing back to version 0.0. > > > NEWS dates back to version 0.0, so I think that PROBLEMS should as well. I don't. NEWS contains a history of GDB, PROBLEMS does not. PROBLEMS is there to identify late breaking screwups and other issues in just _this_ release. It provides only immediate information, and should even be cleared out just after each release. Andrew