Re: [rfa] delete 'force_return' from lookup_symbol_aux_minsyms

Elena Zannoni
2002-12-21T18:54:32Z

Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
> I'm not following the thread so I'm not sure what patch you're referring
> to. But if you want to give me a URL for a patch, any time this weekend
> or the beginning of next week is a good time for testbedding.
>

I am not sure if David committed it yet, but the patch it at the
bottom of:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-12/msg00560.html
Maybe you already tested it!

> It takes roughly 5 hours to test all configurations on one version of
> gdb now -- I am not in a position to testbed lots of patches. The big
> time sink is that I test (all gdb) * (all binutils) and there are lots
> of each of them. It's much faster if I run just one test script, but
> for a symbol table lookup patch, I want to run the whole suite.
>

Yes, that's why i thought your system was the perfect one for this.

> The build time for gcc is increasing even worse than Gate's Law, also.
> (Gates' Law: every 18 months, the speed of software halves).
>

:-(

> Michael C
> Gripe, gripe.

Elena