From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4975 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2004 16:20:58 -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 4967 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2004 16:20:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 7 Aug 2004 16:20:57 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i77GKve3010625 for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:20:57 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i77GKua28904; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:20:56 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E472B9D; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41150161.3000306@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:20:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040801 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: kettenis@chello.nl, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer References: <200408012158.i71LwpRw033840@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <3405-Mon02Aug2004070159+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <410EAFBB.5080102@gnu.org> <2914-Tue03Aug2004065313+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <200408061933.i76JX3HJ008032@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <4113EA3B.3000900@gnu.org> <2914-Sat07Aug2004183455+0300-eliz@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <2914-Sat07Aug2004183455+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00201.txt.bz2 >>Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:29:47 -0400 >>> From: Andrew Cagney >>> >>> Ah. We need to push the MIPS fixes out fairly quickly. Sounds like >>> this should be held back, perhaphs for 6.3 or a 6.2.2. > > > Please don't hold this back! Producing a decent backtrace is one of > the most important features of a debugger (think about debugging a > crash from a core dump); a debugger that cannot reliably do that > cannot be trusted. > > I really don't understand what's to ``hold back'' here: Mark already > made a patch, that patch was reviewed by myself and by Michael, and I > already reported that it fixes the original problems. So it is beyond > me why the MIPS fixes can be in GDB 6.2.1, while the i386 prolog > analysis patch cannot. Mark wrote: > I'd really like this to get some exposure in HEAD before backporting > it, but otherwise I do agree. Remember, at present MIPS is dead in the water. For how long should we delay pushing out a fix for that? Andrew