From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30967 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2002 22:03:51 -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 30917 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2002 22:03:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zwingli.cygnus.com) (208.245.165.35) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 22:03:48 -0000 Received: by zwingli.cygnus.com (Postfix, from userid 442) id AA5555EA11; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:03:47 -0500 (EST) To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Philippe De Muyter , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: don't read coff line number unless we have symbols too References: <200206241257.g5OCv8T09670@mail.macqel.be> <20020624121003.B25572@gnat.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20020624121003.B25572@gnat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00520.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker writes: > Hello, > > Seems OK to me. > > This change seems to be causing some problems. Unfortunately, I don't > have all the details yet. Can we put this patch on hold until I collect > all the information, please? Sure. It's supposed to be semantically undetectable, except for not reading the line number info. The code simply makes GDB not read info from the executable that it will never use. If that expectation is incorrect, I definitely want to know.