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Re: [patch] fix for infinite recursion in lookup_symbol
- To: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: [patch] fix for infinite recursion in lookup_symbol
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:24:56 -0500
--On Wednesday, January 17, 2001 16:12:29 -0500 Christopher Faylor
<cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:09:27PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>>
>> I would like to see this in. There are too many divergences already.
>>
>> Fernando, JimI can one of you commit this?
>>
>> Unless there is some opposition from JimB. (if he replies within say,
>> 5 hours :-).
>
> Can I just suggest that we check it in now and let JimB yell if he
> disapproves? I think enough experienced eyes have looked at this for
> there to be a very small chance that the patch is wrong.
>
> What does everyone think about setting a "vote system" for this kind
> of contingency? We could say that the vote of four gdb engineers with
> write-after-approval == one maintainer with the maintainer having
> absolute authority to remove patches that they think are incorrect,
> of course.
>
> cgf
I like this idea.
after all, patches can always be reverted or backed out if necessary.
It's unlikely this will happen anyway, since maintainers generally got to
be maintainers from submitting good patches, and having expertise in GDB
(except me, I slept my way there).
--Dan