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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:39:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle <john@feith.com> > I have a bit of anxiety over including it in 4.18 at this > late date, because of the potential impact on all x86 configs. Understandable. What the time frame for the 4.18 release? Any idea of the rough plan for a follow up release? 4.18 should be finished this month, unless some kind of huge showstopper materializes. I'd like the next release to happen in less than a year, with all the current goings-on, once/year is a little too slow of a pace. 1) Backtracing through sigtramps on Solaris is somewhat busted without my changes (the Solaris library contains functions which don't use %ebp as the frame pointer). For example ... the backtrace from gdb.base/a1-selftest.exp (without my patch) shows: Hmmm, that makes it a bug fix, not a new feature, therefore more important to add! 1/2 :-) 2) The egcs patch to eliminate the frame pointer by default on the x86 can't be installed until there's debugger support. That's a pretty compelling point too. I'm kind of tempted to go for this change... Stan