[patch] .gdb_index: Ignore higher versions

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Mon Nov 22 20:29:00 GMT 2010


>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> currently introducing new .gdb_index version (latest is v3, so >=4)
Jan> breaks all existing GDBs as they try too interpret the index format
Jan> the old way.

Jan> I have a reproducer here with some other patchset but I find it obvious.

Me too.

Jan> Sending for a comment as we could also introduce some versioning
Jan> features for compatible/incompatible extensions.  I do not think it
Jan> is worth it.

I agree.

Tom



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