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Re: [patch] fix for infinite recursion in lookup_symbol
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: [patch] fix for infinite recursion in lookup_symbol
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:03:13 -0500 (EST)
- cc: <dberlin at redhat dot com>, <cgf at redhat dot com>, <fnasser at cygnus dot com>, <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
> >
> > Of course. But you have to admit, the situation we just had, as Jim
> > pointed out, makes GDB look *really* bad.
>
> I don't agree. I didn't follow the discussion about this particular
> problem, but if the relevant maintainer goes off-line, and some of the
> other maintainers have reservations about a suggested patch in the
> absent maintainer's area, refraining from committing that patch is
> IMHO a prudent thing to do.
Um, nobody had reservations, or at least, nobody expressed them.
The patch was obviously correct, even to people *not* working on gdb.
--Dan