From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10260 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2014 09:43:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10248 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jul 2014 09:43:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:43:09 +0000 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6F9h5bN022238 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:43:05 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6F9h3Lw031682; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:43:04 -0400 Message-ID: <53C4F7A7.9070003@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:53:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans Subject: Re: [PATCH] guile: Compile and install Scheme files. References: <87bntnl0wt.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <87bntnl0wt.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00364.txt.bz2 Hi Ludovic, Can we have a a comment somewhere (either in the sources, or in the commit log), of _why_ we do this? E.g., is this for performance, or for something else? When it is safe? Etc. These are things I'm sure you've considered, and having them written them would potentially save poor-future-gdb-hacker from having to wonder/re-consider them down-the-line. Thanks! :-) -- Pedro Alves