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Eigler via Gdb" Reply-To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Errors-To: gdb-bounces+public-inbox=simark.ca@sourceware.org Sender: "Gdb" Hi - > This is very true, however a few words of caution: IME this is a > maintainability nightmare. Fixing patches that forgot to regenerate, > regenerating on rebase, confirming everything is up-to-date before > merge, etc etc. It can be handled, I have, but it was painful and > time-consuming.The hardest part was ensuring everyone was actually > running the "right" version of Auto* [...] One way to make the nightmare into a light hassle is to let developers commit auto* hand-written inputs with or without Complete Properly refreshed generated bits, and let a maintainer or bot (but I repeat myself) periodically regenerate the derived auto* content. - FChE