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Daniel Jacobowitz writes:

 > Both of the distributions I maintain GDB for (one for my employer, and
 > Debian) are facing problems with the size and load time of debug
 > information.  For them, the intercu branch is both more useful and more
 > urgent.  Whether or not it makes GDB 6.1 through the gdb-patches review
 > process, the GDB 6.1 packages for both of those distributions will
 > include it.
 
I don't feel comfortable including it in FSF gdb6.1.  One strong
reason is that there has been no design review (as opposed to
tree-ssa).  If those distros give you more latitude (i.e. no review
process, availability of 'unstable and 'stable' versions, etc), it is
not a good reason for FSF to do the same.  I am not saying no a
priori.  It's just unfortunate timing.