Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:14:43AM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > > Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > > 
 > >  > Both of the distributions I maintain GDB for (one for my employer, and
 > >  > Debian) are facing problems with the size and load time of debug
 > >  > information.  For them, the intercu branch is both more useful and more
 > >  > urgent.  Whether or not it makes GDB 6.1 through the gdb-patches review
 > >  > process, the GDB 6.1 packages for both of those distributions will
 > >  > include it.
 > >  
 > > I don't feel comfortable including it in FSF gdb6.1.  One strong
 > > reason is that there has been no design review (as opposed to
 > > tree-ssa).  If those distros give you more latitude (i.e. no review
 > > process, availability of 'unstable and 'stable' versions, etc), it is
 > > not a good reason for FSF to do the same.  I am not saying no a
 > > priori.  It's just unfortunate timing.
 > 
 > OK, this is perfectly reasonable.  It's a lot of new code.
 > 
 > The design is actually - I can't really say based on - but pretty much
 > follows suggestions given to me by Jim Blandy last year.  There was
 > definitely no design review of this code; that's because I just sat
 > down and did it.  The design is part of what I have to ask the
 > maintainers of the dwarf2 reader to review.
 > 


Thanks for understanding. To help streamline this, can I ask you to
post a little summary of the major changes you needed to do?  I am
thinking we should strat having a dwarf2 handling section in the doco
and this would be a starting point.