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Re: point of order: how should I post the macro patch?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:15:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: point of order: how should I post the macro patch?
- References: <20020405003254.7457A5EA11@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> Or, if you'd rather have the patch broken up into more digestible
> pieces that individually have no effect, then I can post the pieces in
> the following order:
> - the macro table module
> - the changes throughout GDB to add the macro table to the existing
> symbol table structures (but at this point the table is never used)
> - the changes to dwarf2read.c to actually fill in the table
> - the macro expander module
> - the macro commands module, to give you "show macro" and "macro
> expand",
> - the C evaluator changes
Think about how much has to be backed out of things (mysteriously) go
wrong. New independant files, for instance, do no harm and even benefit
from being exposed to other compilers earlier.
It is a judgment call.
Andrew