From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4822 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2006 15:58:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 4810 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Apr 2006 15:58:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:58:00 +0000 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([192.168.1.3]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:57:58 +0100 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.1.165]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:57:58 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'Daniel Jacobowitz'" Cc: "'Bruce Dubbs'" , Subject: RE: Building gdb from source Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000201c65a5c$09fdd900$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20060407154915.GA24300@nevyn.them.org> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 On 07 April 2006 16:49, 'Daniel Jacobowitz' wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 07 April 2006 16:33, 'Daniel Jacobowitz' wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:25:55PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>>> ? Is this because releases could be coming from branches that were >>>> branched at very different times? Would it have been more reasonable if >>>> I had said "releases that are based on roughly-contemporary branches"? >>> >>> But there are no such releases. >> >> >> Ok, I give up, I haven't got the faintest idea what you're talking >> about. I can't even parse that. > > Binutils and GDB releases are branched at unpredictably different > times. How close in time they are doesn't matter if there's been an > interface change in between. Ah, ok, we're basically in agreement. I understand that interface changes are the one thing that can break compatibility. I was simply inferring that if the interval between a binutils branch and a gdb branch is smaller rather than larger, the odds of someone having made such a change are smaller rather than greater, even though that change is technically a delta that could take place in an instant. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....