Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-26T16:25:45Z

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer