From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23001 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2011 21:58:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 22993 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Mar 2011 21:58:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:58:32 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p27Lw840013568 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:58:08 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p27Lw7hI027417; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:58:07 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p27Lw68U027307; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:58:06 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1B0DC378339; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:58:06 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: quick status on gdb-7.2.1 & gdb-7.3? (Mar 07) References: <20110307122732.GC2478@adacore.com> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:26:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20110307122732.GC2478@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:27:32 +0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00508.txt.bz2 Joel> My understanding is that we don't really need to wait for the Joel> ifunc and SystemTap stuff if it's going to delay the release. Joel> Only a nice to have. I think ifunc is more important. Without ifunc, a very common idiom will not work on recent glibc-based systems: cond 5 !strcmp(arg, "whatever") Tom