Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>]

Hi Eli,

eli> If the leaders state specific goals, and do that convincingly, the
eli> other contributors will most probably follow suit.  At least that's
eli> my experience.

Well, in that regard, I think that this thread will be better if
it waits a week or two after gdb 6.0 is released.

eli> I hope you will agree that a program exists to provide user-level
eli> features, not to satisfy QA.  QA is a means; I hope there's ends to
eli> which the means exists.

Sure.  QA is a means.

However, my opinion is that "more QA" is a critical factor for
improving the gdb user experience.

If you look at the mailing lists and gnats database, there's a lot
more requests that fall under "expand scope of existing stuff"
and not much "this feature would be nice".  For example, many C++
programmers would like "break Foo::Foo" to work.

Michael C