From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 481 invoked by alias); 23 May 2003 17:15:31 -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 375 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 17:15:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.131) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 May 2003 17:15:29 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D542B2F; Fri, 23 May 2003 13:15:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3ECE5728.5040306@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:15:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Merging i386newframe into mailine References: <200305231652.h4NGqs4Y023667@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 > Folks, > > Now that Elena en Michal have tested my i386newframe branch on amd64, > and found it to be in a much better state than mainline, I think I can > seriously consider bringing the new stuff over to mainline. > > This will give us: > > * Improvements to the prologue analyzer. > * Support for DWARF CFI on i386. > > At the cost of: > > * Possibly breaking a few unmaintained i386 targets. > * Possibly introducing bugs due to the DWARF CFI code. > * Possibly exposing bugs lurking in the new frame unwinder code. > > This might lead to a delay in the GDB 6 release, or might force us to > make a bugfix release pretty soon after the initial 6.0 release. Ah, such is life :-) > I think it's worth running these risks, especially since recent > devlopments on Linux/i386 demand DWARF CFI support on the i386. > Therefore I'll do the merge from next Thursday onwards, unless someone > objects. It's all marketing :-) Only the ``early adaptors'' are likely to try a new even release. The more serious users anticipating either 6.0.1 or 6.1. :-^ Andrew