Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:14:43AM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> 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.

OK, this is perfectly reasonable.  It's a lot of new code.

The design is actually - I can't really say based on - but pretty much
follows suggestions given to me by Jim Blandy last year.  There was
definitely no design review of this code; that's because I just sat
down and did it.  The design is part of what I have to ask the
maintainers of the dwarf2 reader to review.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer