Re: [Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>] Re: RFA: don't read coff line number unless we have symbols too

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com>]

Jim,

> Joel, you said this patch caused you some problems, and asked me to
> put it on hold until you had more data.  Can you verify that this does
> indeed break something?  I'm pretty confident that you were observing
> something else.

I am so sorry you put on hold this change for so long because of me.
Something must have been wrong during the mail transfer because I sent
you a private message on June 25:

<<
   Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:22:01 -0700
   From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
   Subject: Re: RFA: don't read coff line number unless we have symbols too
   To: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
   
   > Sure.
   > 
   > It's supposed to be semantically undetectable, except for not reading
   > the line number info.  The code simply makes GDB not read info from
   > the executable that it will never use.  If that expectation is
   > incorrect, I definitely want to know.
   
   Thank you Jim. Just to avoid any misunderstanding, Paul Hilfinger took
   over this issue, so you don't need to wait on me. Last I saw, the
   Interix case was fine too, so it looks like our initial fears were
   unjustified.
>>

-- 
Joel