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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:39:28 -0500 (EST)
From: John Wehle <john@feith.com>
> I have a bit of anxiety over including it in 4.18 at this
> late date, because of the potential impact on all x86 configs.
Understandable. What the time frame for the 4.18 release? Any
idea of the rough plan for a follow up release?
4.18 should be finished this month, unless some kind of huge
showstopper materializes. I'd like the next release to happen in less
than a year, with all the current goings-on, once/year is a little too
slow of a pace.
1) Backtracing through sigtramps on Solaris is somewhat busted without
my changes (the Solaris library contains functions which don't use
%ebp as the frame pointer). For example ... the backtrace from
gdb.base/a1-selftest.exp (without my patch) shows:
Hmmm, that makes it a bug fix, not a new feature, therefore more
important to add! 1/2 :-)
2) The egcs patch to eliminate the frame pointer by default on the
x86 can't be installed until there's debugger support.
That's a pretty compelling point too. I'm kind of tempted to go for
this change...
Stan