Re: [PATCH 1/3] struct packed: Use gcc_struct on Windows

Pedro Alves
2022-07-21T18:57:16Z

On 2022-07-21 7:45 p.m., Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:30:23 +0100
>>
>>> If this is supposed to be based on our vigilance and manual prevention
>>> of exporting it, I think it's fragile and not very reliable. If we
>>> forget or miss something, we get a subtly broken build.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but this isn't making a lot of sense.
>
> You know, Pedro, it has become very hard to talk to you about almost
> anything here. You become annoyed almost from the second sentence I
> write, and your annoyance shows. It doesn't matter if the subject is
> some patch to documentation or something in the code, it is impossible
> for me to conduct any serious discussion without triggering your
> annoyance, with the resulting very unpleasant exchange.
>

I'm sorry that you feel that way. Maybe I should have chosen my words
a bit better above. I apologize if they came out too strong.
We do have our heated debates once in a while, but we always reach some conclusion,
and typically better than what either of us originally proposed, and I appreciate that.
From my side, I always do my best to explain my view. I have tried to do so in
this case as well.

It is really the case that we don't need to worry about ABI here. I can
try to explain better if there's a concrete problem you're seeing. (Problems
with some hypothetical external GDB API we can deal with if we ever get to
that.)

> I'm outta here.
>

I'm sorry to hear that.