From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22869 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2004 00:02:22 -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 22862 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 00:02:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 00:02:21 -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 i7B02Le3021087 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:02:21 -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 i7B02Fa27514; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:02:15 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285D82B9D; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:02:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <411961FC.4010007@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:02:00 -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, mec.gnu@mindspring.com, 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> <41155A83.nail9VC11PTRT@mindspring.com> <7704-Sun08Aug2004065437+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <4115FF44.nail59F11C8I0@mindspring.com> <200408081108.i78B8Cpk009362@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <411633BE.2010809@gnu.org> <7137-Sun08Aug2004223001+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <4116AEA1.7060900@gnu.org> <2914-Mon09Aug2004220629+0300-eliz@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <2914-Mon09Aug2004220629+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00381.txt.bz2 >>> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:52:17 -0400 >>> From: Andrew Cagney >>> >>> week 1.5: 6.2.1: >>> Critical MIPS problem fixed. >>> Fix for long-standing i386 bug known (needs 2 weeks testing) >>> >>> week 4.0: 6.2.2: >>> Long standing bug on old i386 systems fixed. >>> >>> Does this seem reasonable. > > > No. > > Sorry, you didn't answer my question, so I'll try to explain what bugs > me: it's the logic behind these decisions that I cannot grasp. > > That is, if fixing MIPS is so important, then why did we release GDB > 6.2 without waiting for the fix? And if it wasn't important enough > for 6.2 to wait for it, why can't it wait for a couple of weeks and be > released in 6.2.1 together with the i386 prologue analyzer fix? The MIPS breakage wasn't important enough to deny our mainline users a new release of GDB. Especially when it fixed so many bugs, and especially when the delay could easily be a month.. However, now that we've got the MIPS patched up, I see no good reason for holding it back. > I need to understand how to reconcile these two contradicting moves in > order to judge whether I can live with the decision, whatever it is. Andrew