From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: ac131313@cygnus.com
Cc: dan@cgsoftware.com, jason-swarelist@molenda.com,
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] bug in symtab.c:lookup_block_symbol()'s search method
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9003-Fri14Sep2001190223+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BA219EF.3000300@cygnus.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:53:35 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> >> IMNSHO gdb 5.1 can not be released with the symbol binary search
> >> lookup broken as it has been for the last year.
> >
> > Broken?
> > You mean slower.
> > It works *correctly*, just not as *efficiently* as it could.
> > Big difference.
>
> gdb is measured against many criteria, one is performance. if gdb's
> performance drops, gdb has regressed. some would describe it as broken.
Some would describe this a broken, but most reasonable people
(including you, Andrew ;-) probably won't.
I agree with Dan here: I don't think this specific issue can be a
valid reason for saying that GDB is ``broken'' and that ``gdb 5.1 can
not be released'' in its current shape.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-14 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-09 7:48 Jason Molenda
2001-09-10 11:24 ` Michael Snyder
2001-09-10 11:32 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-10 11:50 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-10 11:52 ` Daniel Berlin
[not found] ` <20010910130347.A5628@shell17.ba.best.com>
2001-09-10 14:17 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-14 7:53 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-14 8:53 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-14 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2001-09-14 9:13 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-14 9:58 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-14 10:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-14 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-14 10:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-09-14 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-15 0:54 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-15 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-15 8:01 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-15 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-15 12:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-09-15 12:52 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-15 7:54 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-15 13:08 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-15 13:33 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-15 13:52 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-15 14:02 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-15 14:21 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-16 0:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-17 22:56 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-17 23:12 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-18 6:21 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-18 7:32 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-17 23:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-09-18 4:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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