Re: gdb-4.95.1.tar.bz2 created

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>]

   Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 07:42:22 -0700
   From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>

   On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 03:12:07PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
   > 
   > Perhaps we could send a notice to a somewhat more public forum?  The
   > gnu.utils.bug newsgroup for example.  Or perhaps HJ Lu could send a
   > message to the people he used to send announcements of his "GDB for
   > Linux"?

   I haven't looked at the gdb snapshots for a while. I hope it is
   better than the last time when I looked at. I am afraid I don't have
   much time for gdb for the time being.

I'm not sure when was the last time that you looked at it.  Probably a
few critical bugs have been fixed since then.  Some of the less
critical bugs and more invasive changes have been put off till 5.1
(but most of these are already present on the main branch).  I'm
mostly happy with the current state, but then I'm mostly using GDB to
debug GDB itself (on Linux and the Hurd) or debugging the Hurd.
That's why I think it would be useful to get more people involved in
testing GDB.  But I'm not asking you to do that, at least not you alone.

   BTW, I assume you are aware that there is a gdb patch to support
   loading normal .a and .o files like .so files. It is needed for
   debugging the object loader in XFree86 4.0.

No I'm not.  This probably illustrates the problem I'm talking about.
Many people in the Linux community think that *the* GDB for Linux is
the one you maintain(ed).  They send their bug reports and patches to
you, not to one of the gdb mailing lists.  Therefore I think it would
be a good idea if we could send these people a message stating the
state of affairs (opened up GDB develpment, live CVS repository,
snapshot, soon to be released GDB 5.0) and encourage them to test the
pre-realeses and send comments and patches to the GDB mailing lists.
It would also be a great help if you could forward GDB-related mail
you receive, to the GDB mailing lists.

Concerning the XFree86 loader support: Where can we find the patches,
and how can we find the author's?

Mark