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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tom@tromey.com, sergiodj@redhat.com,
	yao.qi@arm.com
Subject: Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-04 update
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171211042420.rxsaajbbaqmcvw54@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <947684ba-ac4c-79e1-c10b-bd2258aaf111@redhat.com>

> >> One thing that I was thinking it'd be nice to see about getting
> >> into 8.1 was the DWARF5 index stuff (standard replacement for 
> >> .gdb_index):
> >>
> >>  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-05/msg00577.html
[...]
> I've played around with that series for a few days (on and off...),
> and I've now pushed it in, with an important change that eliminates
> most of the risk, IMO -- the original series made GDB default
> to the new index format, while I left .gdb_index the default.
> This should allow users/distros experimenting, and hopefully
> any follow up fixes should be small/contained and easy to backport.

Makes sense indeed! Thanks for doing that, Pedro.

-- 
Joel

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-04 14:56 Joel Brobecker
2017-12-04 15:07 ` Tom Tromey
2017-12-04 15:21   ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-04 15:17 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-04 17:02   ` Joel Brobecker
2017-12-09  0:17     ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-11  4:24       ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2017-12-04 16:23 ` Yao Qi
2017-12-04 16:52   ` Joel Brobecker
2017-12-04 16:25 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-04 17:11 ` Sergio Durigan Junior

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