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Re: [PING][PATCH v9] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types


Hi all,

I'm getting very close to completing a new version with the requested
changes plus a couple other improvements.

One of the last things I need to do is check for the gdb version.
While I could set gdb 7.7.1 (the earliest version I've tested this on)
as a hard minimum, there's the issue of the
RegexpCollectionPrettyPrinter bug, which was fixed for gdb 7.8. This
is a quite minimal change (just a couple of lines added to a Python
script) that any user could easily fix manually without having to
recompile. It's also documented in the README.

What do you guys think would be better? Should I set 7.7.1 as a
minimum for the unit tests, and trust that the user will read the
README before running them, or just use 7.8? In any case, touching up
the unit tests so that they'll work with 7.7.1 would be quite easy as
well.


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