From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25083 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2003 03:47:54 -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 25076 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2003 03:47:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 03:47:53 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h923lqvd003443 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:47:23 -0700 Received: from apple.com (vpn-scv-x3-113.apple.com [17.219.194.113]) by scv2.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h923leWI015899; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F7B9FEF.6070600@apple.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:47:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Features vs infrastructure (was Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?) References: <3F717475.33E13BC4@india.hp.com> <6654-Wed24Sep2003201904+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F72FF8C.3080104@redhat.com> <6654-Sat27Sep2003132618+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75A491.4010203@redhat.com> <1659-Sat27Sep2003204134+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75D8D3.2090207@redhat.com> <2427-Sun28Sep2003102631+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F76EC92.6010005@redhat.com> <4098-Sun28Sep2003234119+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F775F6C.8070209@redhat.com> <3F784618.50203@redhat.com> <3F7B4BEC.1060800@apple.com> <3F7B9B85.50201@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3F7B9B85.50201@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: >> Heh, I've been trolled! :-) I must say, I've been a little envious >> watching GDB development over the past couple of years; Cygnus was never >> able to afford so many cycles spent on internals. For multi-arch alone >> it took over three years from initial proposal to the actual hacking... > > > Interesting view of history. You sound dubious... But in 1995 I drew up a document listing a bunch of directions for Cygnus to pursue with GDB, presented them at every quarterly meeting, and management would smile and nod and not make any promises. Multi-arch even got onto the future work schedule a couple times, but then contracts came in and bumped it off again. The 1995 doc is presumably still officially RH confidential, but perhaps you could get somebody over there to approve posting it; it would be a useful window into a less-well-known era of GDB history. Stan