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Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]


On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:04:09PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >This is certainly the right direction. We have discussed this in very
> >general terms (I believe at the gcc conference), but I don't remember
> >a discussion on the gdb lists. Since this seems quite a big rewrite (I
> >am not sure, I just saw all this stuff appearing at once), how about
> >using the branching approach? It has worked well for a few features now.
> 
> Honestly, yes.  As core maintainers we should be willing to do as we ask.

I don't ask for people to use branches, because it's a bloody nuisance. 
Once all patches have gone onto a branch, reproducing a series of
logically contained patches that are small enough to be acceptable to
the GDB Gods is an additional week or month of work.  I prefer when
possible to do work in increments, on mainline.

Having been asked twice to use a branch I'll investigate it.  Not for
these patches, however, which are designed to be non-behavior-changing
cleanups.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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