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Re: More code code dropping
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 15:27:20 -0800
- Subject: Re: More code code dropping
- References: <20011129005901.A60085@molenda.com> <200112070641.WAA01521@localhost.localdomain> <3C10E0F3.2010607@cygnus.com> <3C10E386.2070809@cygnus.com> <20011208081530.BC4D8F28C6@nile.gnat.com>
> Folks,
>
> In discussing with Andrew Cagney the proper procedure for depositing
ACT's
> Ada-related changes to GDB, I raised the question of what the most useful
> patch would be (or if it matters). Inasmuch as ACT's current GDB sources
> are derived from the GDB 5.0 release from spring 2000, last re-merged
> in September 2000, I thought that a diff against the gdb 5.0 release
> was probably most useful. Andrew had suggested a patch against the
> latest, bleeding-edge changes. Since the idea of a diff is to give the
> curious some idea of our changes, it seemed to me that the latter
diff would
> show mostly undoings of more recent changes to GDB. If anyone else out
> there has an opinion on this subject, I'd like to hear it.
Valid point. Apple handled this by putting up both an older stable
release and a current snap.
Anyway, regardless of how it is done, I think the main objective is to
just get Act's GDB changes contributed to the FSF. That way they can be
merged in.
enjoy,
Andrew