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From: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Our next GDB release (GDB version 6.8)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A2171C.6080209@portugalmail.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080131172435.GH12387@adacore.com>

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> In my opinion, this is not a critical issue. IIUC, this is not a regression,
> and the only issue is that, for the "main", the breakpoint will be placed
> at a location such that the debugger will stop at the open curly brace.
> So the user will need an extra "next".
> 

That and the fact that global c++ ctors will only run after "next".
That's what's most different, and surprising.

> I did notice that the fix gets rid of a lot of FAILs though.
> 

This happens, because a lot of tests fail because runto_main or
similar fails.

> If it was just me, I would categorize this as non release-critical.
> But the rest of the group might disagree, so I'll defer to them.
> 

I agree.  I'd like this to go in, of course, but there's no rush
from me.

-- 
Pedro Alves


      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <000501c8619c$5261e940$f725bbc0$@u-strasbg.fr>
     [not found]   ` <20080130180336.GD11271@adacore.com>
2008-01-31 13:34     ` Pierre Muller
2008-01-31 17:58       ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-31 19:53         ` Pedro Alves [this message]

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