From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14753 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2004 15:05:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14746 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2004 15:05:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2004 15:05:29 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AwN4o-0006DN-3F; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:05:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:05:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Daniel Berlin , cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references Message-ID: <20040226150526.GB13921@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Daniel Berlin , cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com References: <20040225035109.83E2F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <403C2E96.8050409@gnu.org> <1C4B9E16-67AD-11D8-9146-000A95DA505C@dberlin.org> <403CD4D6.3000100@gnu.org> <1037DDEA-67B5-11D8-9146-000A95DA505C@dberlin.org> <403CEE5C.5080100@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00386.txt.bz2 On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:30:56AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > It's not more important in general, but since we are preparing to cut > the 6.1 branch in a few days, DW_OP_piece might be a good thing to do > now, while delaying intercu-branch merge till after the release. > It's a question of timing, not of an abstract importance. Then both you and Andrew underestimate the intrusiveness of DW_OP_piece support. I estimate it will be less total code but considerably more disruptive, since it will require changes outside of the dwarf2 reader. Ergo require more testing, more settling time, more review time, et cetera, and less workable for the branch. 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer