Re: [RFA] bug in symtab.c:lookup_block_symbol()'s search method

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:15:38 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> > 
> > The suggested criteria for committing something to the 5.1 branch are:
> > 
> > 	o	does it build (and if not did it build in 5.0/4.18)
> > 
> > 	o	does ``break main; run'' work
> > 
> > Jason, you've indicate that this seriously hurts Apple's GDB branch. 
> > Since (FSF) GDB has never worked on MacOS X, I don't think hurting 
> > Apple's GDB branch is really qualifies as a reason for getting something 
> > into 5.1 of GDB (The trunk yes definitly, just not the branch).
> 
> These two paragraphs seem to be in direct opposition.  Which do you
> mean?  It helps performance on more than just OSX; it's an issue I've
> run in to more than a few times before.  It doesn't break "break main;
> run".

I think Andrew meant to say that if a GDB port for some platform is
broken to the degree that it either doesn't build or cannot do a
``break main; run'', then it is justified to fix that platform on the
release branch.