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Re: [rfa] delete 'force_return' from lookup_symbol_aux_minsyms
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: carlton at math dot stanford dot edu, ezannoni at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, jimb at redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:58:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: [rfa] delete 'force_return' from lookup_symbol_aux_minsyms
- References: <200212210710.gBL7ArG31372@duracef.shout.net>
Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
> I'm not following the thread so I'm not sure what patch you're referring
> to. But if you want to give me a URL for a patch, any time this weekend
> or the beginning of next week is a good time for testbedding.
>
I am not sure if David committed it yet, but the patch it at the
bottom of:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-12/msg00560.html
Maybe you already tested it!
> It takes roughly 5 hours to test all configurations on one version of
> gdb now -- I am not in a position to testbed lots of patches. The big
> time sink is that I test (all gdb) * (all binutils) and there are lots
> of each of them. It's much faster if I run just one test script, but
> for a symbol table lookup patch, I want to run the whole suite.
>
Yes, that's why i thought your system was the perfect one for this.
> The build time for gcc is increasing even worse than Gate's Law, also.
> (Gates' Law: every 18 months, the speed of software halves).
>
:-(
> Michael C
> Gripe, gripe.
Elena