From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27190 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2002 21:17:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27180 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2002 21:17:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2002 21:17:35 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8QLHO013724; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:17:24 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB PR categories References: <3D934F11.6050809@redhat.com> <3D937699.3020502@redhat.com> From: David Carlton Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:17:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3D937699.3020502@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00460.txt.bz2 On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:05:29 -0400, Andrew Cagney said: >> If you're going to create so many categories, how about one for >> each debugging format as well? > I think it might confuse things. The only way the average user is > going to spot a symtab bug is by GDB printing out: > internal-error: symtab.c: ..... > :-) That's a good point, and one that I hadn't considered. Having said that, the categories are more for our benefit, not for users' benefits, so as long as we don't mind moving PR's to an appropriate category once they've been analyzed, then debugging format-specific categories could be useful. But probably in practice there would be few enough such bugs that having a generic 'symtab' category is good enough. > (BTW, anyone know the story with ``-'' in categories. I think > fernando indicated that it wasn't valid but the online docs > (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/ uses that in the examples.) Wasn't Fernando complaining about "-" in categories for the testsuite? Something about argument passing and runtest? Though now that I look at the actual thread, I'm confused. David Carlton carlton@math.stanford.edu