Re: MI: frozen variable objects

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-17T15:19:11Z

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:03:30PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > I'm not particularly inclined to wait, since none of this will show up
> > unless your target / IDE specifically try to use it, but I'm sure I
> > could be persuaded.
>
> If existing behaviour is broken it _should_ show up. A six month release cycle
> doesn't seem long to wait especially coming from Emacs whose last mainline
> release was Oct 2001 (GDB 5.3 was current when I started!). Maybe there is
> another agenda with Emacs, I don't know, but presumably it will be released one
> day and I would like it to work with current GDB when it is.

I think Vladimir's said everything I would have said in response to
this. Is your concern breaking your MI frontend in Emacs? If so,
then you need to test - either routinely on HEAD, or if you have
more limited time, then on release branches. That's why we keep
release branches around for a few weeks and announce prereleases.

Whether the patch lands on GDB 6.6 or 6.7 doesn't make much difference
to the risk. If there's no testing, it might be released broken; if
there is testing, it won't be.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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