Re: GDB 6.2.1?

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

>>What's left for this re-spin?
>>> - ``absolute source path'' patch
>>> - i386 patch
>>> - ?

The MIPS crasher bug is in though.  That's the critical one.

> 2 mips-irix patches. You said in one of your earlier message that I
> should feel free to pull in the branch any patch I need for mips-irix.
> I understood that these patches needed to be checked in mainline first
> before they could be integrated in the branch. That's why there not
> in the branch yet.
> 
> The first patch was under heavy discussion (about setting the right
> floatformat). I am not where we're headed for this one as I don't have
> the time to work on adding support for IRIX 128bit floats in GDB.

I think it ended with a compromise of a 128-bit IRIX MIPS floatformat.

I'd also like to know the original details on the crash.

> The other one needs to be reworked because Andrew wanted to get some
> reorg done before we looked into this. It's on my plate.

I don't even remember what that one is.  Ah, yes, the backtrace fix, 
leave that for 6.3.

> What should we do? Push a bit on the resolution of the above 2 patches?
> Or simply pull them in the branch as is, without having checked
> something in head first (this is unorthodox)?

(We've all learnt the hard way to not do this).

So lets get just cover the float bug.

Andrew