From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13035 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2002 17:49:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13028 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2002 17:49:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.dberlin.org) (138.88.44.54) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2002 17:49:24 -0000 Received: by www.dberlin.org (Postfix, from userid 503) id A9BCB1818961; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:49:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by www.dberlin.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0256218003C1; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:49:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Berlin To: Jim Blandy Cc: Petr Sorfa , "gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] DWARF support for .debug_loc offsets In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,NO_MX_FOR_FROM,AWL version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00232.txt.bz2 On 11 Jul 2002, Jim Blandy wrote: > > A procedural nit: putting "PATCH" in the subject line means by > convention that you've committed, or are about to commit, the patch in > your message. If you're submitting a patch for approval, you should > put "RFA" in your subject. You are aware, that the idea that putting [PATCH] in the line means you are committing a patch, is pretty much different than every other project? Look at GCC, fer instance. [PATCH] means it's a patch, to be looked at. It's very confusing to submit patches to GDB, when it's the only one with different procedures. > > "RFC" and "WIP" I *think* both mean that you're just asking for > comments, but you plan to revise the patch before really submitting it > ("RFA"). > >