Re: macros/726: Internal GDB errors with current GDB snapshots and -gdwarf2-3

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:05:05PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
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> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:58:18PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:29:09PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> > > >I think it's good to send the patch to gdb-patches as usual,
> > > >and then mail to gdb-gnats with a URL that points to the patch.
> > > >That means you have to for the patch to show up in the gdb-patches
> > > >archive, but that takes just a few seconds.
> > >
> > > Just as an aside, I'm wondering if it is time to consider switching
> > > to bugzilla.  I think bugzilla handles this issue a little better.
> >
> > I'd say, absolutely.  I've been meaning to ask Daniel B. about setting
> > one up for binutils too.
> 
> binutils is easier than gdb, because binutils has nothing right now.
> Thus, there's nothing to convert :P.
> 
> GDB has GNATS, and in order to keep the bug numbers the same, we'd have
> to set up a new install of bugzilla (since bugzilla bug ids are
> "globally" unique to a given bugzilla instance, rather than unique to a
> given product).

Yeah, at this point I guess we'd prefer to hold on to the PR ids. 
We've documented some of them...

> Does GDB have any different gnats fields than gcc's gnats used to?
> 
> If not, i can run the conversion script on the database, import the data
> into my test database on dberlin.org, and you guys could see what the
> converted db looks like (though i don't have inbound email handling set up
> on my machine).

I don't think it does.  Different things in the category lists et
cetera, of course.  But that's it.  Right now it's:

Reporter, CC, Number, Category, Synopsis, Confidential, Severity,
Priority, Responsible, State, Class, Submitter-Id, Arrival-Date,
Closed-Date, Last-Modified, Originator, Release, Organization,
Environment, Description, File Attachments, How-To-Repeat, Fix,
Release-Note, Unformatted, and the Audit Trail.

Usual caveats about how much some of those are worth.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer