From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15963 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2004 18:52:29 -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 15955 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2004 18:52:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 7 Aug 2004 18:52:28 -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 i77IqSe3003792 for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:52:28 -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 i77IqRa27025; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:52:27 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B192B9D; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:52:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <411524E4.7020106@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:52:00 -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: Joel Brobecker Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 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> <41150161.3000306@gnu.org> <20040807183054.GC1192@gnat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040807183054.GC1192@gnat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 >>Remember, at present MIPS is dead in the water. For how long should we >>> delay pushing out a fix for that? > > > mips-irix has been broken for a long time now, and I don't remember > seeing any complaint. So I don't think we have that much pressure > to produce a good release within a short time frame. If anything, > I think it can wait until 6.3. The alternative for the users is to > either use 5.3, which was pretty good - or use a patched-up 6.2.1 > with the couple of fixes I sent (this may be necessary if they use > a very recent version of GCC, I don't know). For MIPS-IRIX, yes. Here the question is generic mips and the bfd/ fix you back ported. That is a good reason for a prompt re-spin of 6.2. Andrew