RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 19:49:00 GMT 2003
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:04:09PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> >This is certainly the right direction. We have discussed this in very
>> >general terms (I believe at the gcc conference), but I don't remember
>> >a discussion on the gdb lists. Since this seems quite a big rewrite (I
>> >am not sure, I just saw all this stuff appearing at once), how about
>> >using the branching approach? It has worked well for a few features now.
>
>>
>> Honestly, yes. As core maintainers we should be willing to do as we ask.
>
>
> I don't ask for people to use branches, because it's a bloody nuisance.
> Once all patches have gone onto a branch, reproducing a series of
> logically contained patches that are small enough to be acceptable to
> the GDB Gods is an additional week or month of work. I prefer when
> possible to do work in increments, on mainline.
I agree, instead prefering a steady sequence of incremental change.
> Having been asked twice to use a branch I'll investigate it. Not for
> these patches, however, which are designed to be non-behavior-changing
> cleanups.
Thanks for clarifying this.
Andrew
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