Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references

Elena Zannoni
2004-02-26T16:36:51Z

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:14:43AM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> >
> > > Both of the distributions I maintain GDB for (one for my employer, and
> > > Debian) are facing problems with the size and load time of debug
> > > information. For them, the intercu branch is both more useful and more
> > > urgent. Whether or not it makes GDB 6.1 through the gdb-patches review
> > > process, the GDB 6.1 packages for both of those distributions will
> > > include it.
> >
> > I don't feel comfortable including it in FSF gdb6.1. One strong
> > reason is that there has been no design review (as opposed to
> > tree-ssa). If those distros give you more latitude (i.e. no review
> > process, availability of 'unstable and 'stable' versions, etc), it is
> > not a good reason for FSF to do the same. I am not saying no a
> > priori. It's just unfortunate timing.
>
> OK, this is perfectly reasonable. It's a lot of new code.
>
> The design is actually - I can't really say based on - but pretty much
> follows suggestions given to me by Jim Blandy last year. There was
> definitely no design review of this code; that's because I just sat
> down and did it. The design is part of what I have to ask the
> maintainers of the dwarf2 reader to review.
>

Thanks for understanding. To help streamline this, can I ask you to
post a little summary of the major changes you needed to do? I am
thinking we should strat having a dwarf2 handling section in the doco
and this would be a starting point.