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Re: Three weeks to branching (gdb 7.5 release)
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:58:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: Three weeks to branching (gdb 7.5 release)
- References: <20120511181737.GP29339@adacore.com> <20120529171658.GA11359@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120530220433.GR5492@adacore.com> <alpine.DEB.1.10.1206072025490.23962@tp.orcam.me.uk>
> Ouch, that's a tad inconvenient to me, I had hoped for the branch to have
> been made so that the MIPS changes I'm working on right now can be safely
> applied to trunk without the risk of disturbing the upcoming release.
> That includes the floating-point changes currently on my plate -- these
> already published and some more stuff still ongoing. Plus the ISA bit
> discussion.
Understood.
> I do understand the importance of the issues concerned by Jan of course,
> but I also feel like deferring the MIPS stuff for a month and likely more
> is going to get me distracted too much by something else,
Yeah, if the branch continues to be delayed much, we should go ahead
with your changes, and adjust if some regressions are found.
> so given the circumstances may I kindly ask people to have a look into
> my proposal and request for discussion about the generic parts of the
> ISA bit changes as posted here:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-05/msg00515.html
I will try myself, but may not be the best reviewer.
--
Joel