Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

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:
>>> 
>>
>>>> > 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.
>