Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:24:46PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>>>> >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.
> 
> 
> I haven't heard any of these noises?  In any case I don't think it's a
> particularly good idea, unless all you mean is handling the resulting
> error() call so that it doesn't abort symbol reading.

Lets say hints with others making various noises
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2004-02/msg00170.html
If we don't do something, how useful will GDB 6.1 be when GCC 3.4 is 
released?  Spending resources on adding ICU to the branch certainly 
won't fix that problem, sigh.

I'm thinking of something that at least stops GDB falling on its sword 
when this happens.

Andrew