RE: [pushed] [BUILDROBOT] makeinfo fails (was: [pushed] [PATCH V4] Add support for bound table in the Intel MPX context.)

["Tedeschi, Walfred" <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>]

Joel,

I will improve the error message and will send you a patch.
Will send for review by moday/Tuesday.

I still can send it as post pushed, so people can contribute to it.

Thanks a lot again,
-Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Joel Brobecker
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 2:55 PM
To: Tedeschi, Walfred
Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [pushed] [BUILDROBOT] makeinfo fails (was: [pushed] [PATCH V4] Add support for bound table in the Intel MPX context.)

> Pushed the fix.
> The final changes were slightly different from what I proposed.
> Basically incorporating two of your comments.
> I still think that we could improve the error message to help user 
> understand what is wrong.
> In fact I did not want to wait longer to have a fix for the builds.
> 
> In case you have comments on that commit please let me know I will fix 
> it immediately!

I agree that a more informative error message would be welcome; that is: explain which feature is not supported, and why it is not.

For the emergency fix, it looks good to me, modulo the above.
Procedurally, when someone pushes a patch that's different from the one that was previously sent, it's customary to email the patch to this mailing-list as well, just for archiving and also to give everyone an opportunity to react to it, just in case.

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