From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29834 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2009 21:00:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 29825 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Aug 2009 21:00:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp1.ugent.be (HELO smtp1.UGent.be) (157.193.71.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:00:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (mcheck1.ugent.be [157.193.71.91]) by smtp1.UGent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43A63F6181; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:00:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp1.UGent.be ([157.193.71.182]) by localhost (mcheck1.ugent.be [157.193.43.11]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ryF3FH+r49+m; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:00:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.elis.ugent.be (mail.elis.UGent.be [157.193.206.48]) by smtp1.UGent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64CC3F617C; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:00:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.elis.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70769918F21; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:00:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.elis.ugent.be ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.elis.ugent.be [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id I+oL+hbHjJDe; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:00:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (codd.elis.UGent.be [157.193.206.155]) by mail.elis.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FB8918F1C; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:00:24 +0200 (CEST) Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Message-Id: <974A5AD7-CDC7-488D-BF4F-9D729C5003C5@elis.ugent.be> From: Jonas Maebe To: tromey@redhat.com In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Subject: Re: errors in GDB reading symbols Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:00:00 -0000 References: <97234C41-9CA5-4A2C-89BA-6B54256D8B81@gmail.com> <20090803170138.GA32482@caradoc.them.org> X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4A7B446C.002/157.193.206.48/mail.elis.UGent.be/mail.elis.ugent.be/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 4A7B446C.002 on smtp1.UGent.be : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.000 -> S=0.000 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-08/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 On 06 Aug 2009, at 19:07, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Jonas" == Jonas Maebe writes: > > FWIW -- I try to review every patch that I think I have some chance of > reviewing well. Unfortunately for you, your patches fall outside my > zone of comfort. I know the feeling (there's quite a few FPC issues lingering as well due to them falling outside the zone of comfort of the currently active developers). > All I can suggest is being more persistent and/or obnoxious in > pinging :-). Next week maybe, I don't have much time currently (paper deadline). > Is libgdb.a still used on other platforms? I won't push forward on > removing it if you still use it and you are reasonably active. > While I > would prefer that you switch to MI, I can understand that this is > non-trivial. It is definitely still very much used in the Dos/go32v2 and Win32 versino of the IDE. It is also used in our own builds of the Linux- version of the IDE, but less so in the versions packaged by distributions (mostly because of there being no separate working "libgdb.a" package). Other than the implementation cost that you noted, the main opposition to using MI that I've heard are a) as mentioned by Marco, it's probably impossible to use it on Dos (since there's no multitasking) b) communication with gdb via MI is supposedly dreadfully slow on Windows (I don't have Windows, so I can't confirm or deny this) Jonas