[PATCH] target_read_aux_vector

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 14:11:00 GMT 2003


> Roland, not sure why you posted this.  The relevant discussion has still 
>> not been resolved.
> 
> 
> I like to write code more than I like to speculate about how I will write
> it.  My favorite sort of discussion about code includes exchanges of "like
> this?  [and some code that might work]", "no, different because of foo and
> bar", "ok, so like this? [and some different code that might work]", and so
> on.  Let's have a discussion like that!
> 
> I developed one of the alternatives being discussed to flesh out the issues
> with doing it that way.  In the process, I noticed that part of it was
> independently useful (fixing a missing part of gcore functionality).  I
> posted this patch to demonstrate the utility of this alternative for the
> purpose we are discussing, and the bonus feature that my patch as posted
> fixes an existing, separate shortcoming of gdb.  Now discuss!

In that case, can I suggest posting such things as [wip] 
(work-in-progress).  That way it's clear that the change is intended as 
a discussion point, and not a final waiting-on-approval patch.  It 
unfortunatly comes across as very strange when someone posts what looks 
like the final [rfa] for for a specific variant of a change when the 
related technical discussion has not been resolved.

enjoy,
Andrew




More information about the Gdb-patches mailing list