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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: kettenis@chello.nl, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Merging i386newframe into mailine
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 15:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ED232A1.2090407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6480-Sat24May2003125340+0300-eliz@elta.co.il>

>> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:52:54 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
>> 
>> * Possibly breaking a few unmaintained i386 targets.
> 
> 
> Could the DJGPP (a.k.a. go32) target be one of those?
> 
> 
>> I think it's worth running these risks, especially since recent
>> devlopments on Linux/i386 demand DWARF CFI support on the i386.
> 
> 
> OTOH, GDB 6 will have many valuable fixes, and it would be a pity to
> deny those features from users of platforms that could be broken by
> the merge.
> 
> So how about waiting for 6.1 with the merge?

(mark, correct?)
I believe any potential i386 problems should be confined to things like 
signal handlers (unwinding through, or from them).

Basic break-main;run functionality should be fine (in fact slightly 
better because the non CFI unwinder was also improved).

Andrw


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-26 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-23 16:52 Mark Kettenis
2003-05-23 17:15 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-24  9:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-24 11:27   ` Mark Kettenis
2003-05-24 17:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-26 15:31   ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-05-29 15:14     ` Mark Kettenis
2003-05-29 16:48       ` Andrew Cagney
     [not found] ` <200305231745.h4NHj2JL029521@gremlin.ics.uci.edu>
2003-05-24 11:15   ` Mark Kettenis

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