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Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:29:47 -0400
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>

Ah. We need to push the MIPS fixes out fairly quickly. Sounds like this should be held back, perhaphs for 6.3 or a 6.2.2. 


Please don't hold this back!  Producing a decent backtrace is one of
the most important features of a debugger (think about debugging a
crash from a core dump); a debugger that cannot reliably do that
cannot be trusted.

I really don't understand what's to ``hold back'' here: Mark already
made a patch, that patch was reviewed by myself and by Michael, and I
already reported that it fixes the original problems.  So it is beyond
me why the MIPS fixes can be in GDB 6.2.1, while the i386 prolog
analysis patch cannot.

Mark wrote:

I'd really like this to get some exposure in HEAD before backporting
it, but otherwise I do agree.

Remember, at present MIPS is dead in the water. For how long should we delay pushing out a fix for that?

Andrew


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