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Re: [RFA 2/5] Darwin: Handle unrelocated dyld.
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>, Xavier Roirand <roirand at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:28:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFA 2/5] Darwin: Handle unrelocated dyld.
- References: <1534932677-9496-1-git-send-email-roirand@adacore.com> <1534932677-9496-3-git-send-email-roirand@adacore.com> <18e995c1bee8c82df212dd431136d259@polymtl.ca> <87lg7ysdpb.fsf@tromey.com> <20180919134057.GN19172@adacore.com> <87d657aa82a5a114995d8035c4f2f125@polymtl.ca>
> Given the low amount of resources we have to work on GDB for macOS and the
> fact that it's difficult for one person to test on different versions of
> macOS (you would need multiple Mac computers, AFAIK), I suggest that we only
> aim at supporting the last two released versions of macOS. I say two,
> because there will always be an overlap after a new version is released,
> where some people use the new version and others have not upgraded yet.
That makes a lot of sense to me.
If we agree, let's document that somewhere. I'm not sure where
the best place might be. Maybe this wiki page?
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDarwin
> If some people use older versions of macOS and want to contribute patches
> and help testing, that's fine too, but if everybody contributing is on
> latest or latest-1, we can't realistically ensure it works on previous
> versions.
>
> That said, I agree that it would be very helpful if commit messages and
> comments in the code mentioned the version of macOS that was used at the
> time that commit message or comment was written.
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Joel