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To: Gaius Mulley <gaius@glam.ac.uk>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  deuling@de.ibm.com, 	  gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unbounded array support implemented (for Modula-2)
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Gaius Mulley <gaius@glam.ac.uk> writes:
> - I wonder whether it might be better to hold off applying the patch
> and attempt to solve the problem properly using the COMPUTE_BOUND
> method explained above.

You're the Modula-2 maintainer, so it's your call, but for what it's
worth, if you think the full DWARF implementation --- both the GCC and
GDB sides --- will take more than a few weeks, and if these unbounded
arrays are a reasonably widely used language construct, I'd counsel
you to go ahead and commit the current patch.  The work is already
done; there's no reason to make the perfect the enemy of the good.