Re: GDB 5.2 or GDB 5.1.1?

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:57:12PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
 > > Hello,
 > > 
 > > I'm looking over all the things in my 5.1.1 folder and am beginning to 
 > > think that it might be better if instead just move onto 5.2.  I really 
 > > don't know if it is worth all the effort (well mine and a few others) of 
 > > pulling those changes onto a branch.  All the C++ fixes, the HP/UX host 
 > > stuff and so on.
 > > 
 > > For this to work, all the proposed release criteria for 5.2 would need 
 > > to be droped.
 > > 
 > > thoughts?
 > > 
 > > Either way, there needs to be a decision by the middle of next week.
 > 
 > Well, we got GCC 3.0 ABI support off the New features list.  ObjC/C++
 > would push us back a long ways, and I don't remember what the
 > complications with readline4.2 were.

None, I just didn't get a chance to do the import.

Elena


 > 
 > I wouldn't be averse to a quick 5.2 release from the trunk, otherwise. 
 > There's a few things it would be nice to have done first - I have more
 > C++ fixes, and the profiling patch has not AFAICR been committed yet. 
 > But there should be time.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
 > MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer