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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] .gdb_index: Ignore higher versions
References: <20101121202702.GA18217@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:29:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20101121202702.GA18217@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan	Kratochvil's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:27:02 +0100")
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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> currently introducing new .gdb_index version (latest is v3, so >=4)
Jan> breaks all existing GDBs as they try too interpret the index format
Jan> the old way.

Jan> I have a reproducer here with some other patchset but I find it obvious.

Me too.

Jan> Sending for a comment as we could also introduce some versioning
Jan> features for compatible/incompatible extensions.  I do not think it
Jan> is worth it.

I agree.

Tom