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Re: [patch] fix for infinite recursion in lookup_symbol
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:09:27PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> >
> >I would like to see this in. There are too many divergences already.
> >
> >Fernando, JimI can one of you commit this?
> >
> >Unless there is some opposition from JimB. (if he replies within say,
> >5 hours :-).
>
> Can I just suggest that we check it in now and let JimB yell if he
> disapproves? I think enough experienced eyes have looked at this for
> there to be a very small chance that the patch is wrong.
>
Yes, it is causing lots of trouble everywhere. I will check it in and
leave it for Jim Blandy to decide if it stays or is reverted.
> What does everyone think about setting a "vote system" for this kind
> of contingency? We could say that the vote of four gdb engineers with
> write-after-approval == one maintainer with the maintainer having
> absolute authority to remove patches that they think are incorrect,
> of course.
>
It is a good suggestion.
We do need some mechanism to deal with these cases.
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