From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: "H . J . Lu" Cc: Mark Kettenis , eliz@is.elta.co.il, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: gdb doesn't work very well with dynamic linked binaries Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:23:00 -0000 Message-id: <39B59C92.37799057@apple.com> References: <20000901192328.A28312@valinux.com> <200009041047.LAA10659@phal.cygnus.co.uk> <20000904084934.A11100@lucon.org> <200009041751.e84HprD11517@debye.wins.uva.nl> <20000904164458.A12270@lucon.org> <200009050548.BAA05890@indy.delorie.com> <20000904233222.A13933@lucon.org> <200009051035.GAA06054@indy.delorie.com> <200009051333.e85DXsv12272@debye.wins.uva.nl> <20000905084923.C15547@lucon.org> X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00046.html "H . J . Lu" wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > > If it won't be fixed in 5.1, I will follow your hints and implement a > > > Linux only solution when it happens to me again. > > > > A generic x86 solution would be preferable, but a clean, well > > documented Linux-only solution is certainly welcome. > > Given do it clean, do it fast and make it to work, you can only > pick 2 if I am the only one to do it. Since I don't have much time > to do it, I have to pick do it fast. I feel like I should say something here - doing things fast for GNU/Linux has been a continuing source of problems. All this stuff is going to take the same amount of time in the end, whether we kludge now and rewrite over and over later, or do it right the first time. GDB Linux thread hacking has been going on for a couple years, and it's still not quite done; if I had known it was going to take this long, I would have taken a harder line about accepting the original expedient version. If you don't think that you're getting enough time to do things right, then you should take it up with your management. Since VA Linux thinks highly enough of you to feature your picture prominently in their Linux World booth :-), you should have enough pull to say "this is how long it needs to take". If you supply me with names, I will be happy to take it up with them myself too - VA Linux' business depends heavily on its reputation for good Linux engineering, and I doubt they want to become known as the company that is pushing hacky forked versions of GDB out into the world. Stan