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Re: [PATCH] Unbounded array support implemented (for Modula-2)
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Gaius Mulley <gaius at glam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, deuling at de dot ibm dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:29:08 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unbounded array support implemented (for Modula-2)
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Gaius Mulley <gaius at glam.ac.uk> writes:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
>> Gaius Mulley <gaius@glam.ac.uk> writes:
>> > - I wonder whether it might be better to hold off applying the patch
>> > and attempt to solve the problem properly using the COMPUTE_BOUND
>> > method explained above.
>>
>> You're the Modula-2 maintainer, so it's your call, but for what it's
>> worth, if you think the full DWARF implementation --- both the GCC and
>> GDB sides --- will take more than a few weeks, and if these unbounded
>> arrays are a reasonably widely used language construct, I'd counsel
>> you to go ahead and commit the current patch. The work is already
>> done; there's no reason to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Just a small note to say that I'm going to follow your advice and
> commit these original patches (and test codes) before too much time
> elapses. I've re-tested the code on the current CVS snapshot and it
> doesn't cause any extra regression failures. I guess I'd just like to
> flag this as about to happen..
Sounds great.