From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31659 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2004 19:24:50 -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 31652 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2004 19:24:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2004 19:24:49 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41AC2B92; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:24:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <403E47FE.70409@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:24:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Daniel Berlin , gdb@sources.redhat.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references 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> <20040226150526.GB13921@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20040226150526.GB13921@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00399.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 can't speak for Elena) I think I've got a pretty good feel for how much work is involved in finishing (rather than prototyping) something like this. Thats why I'm making noises about a DW_OP_piece hack for 6.1. Andrew