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Re: [RFA take 5] Allow setting breakpoints on inline functions (PR 10738)
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:56:41 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFA take 5] Allow setting breakpoints on inline functions (PR 10738)
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:48:04 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:58:49 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
>> > This version of the patch has been updated to add a new command line
>> > option, --allow-incomplete-gdb-indexes,
>>
>> Sorry I was a bit offline, I believe such option would be OK just as a vendor
>> patch.
>
> with some more discussions about it Tom also shares this opinion. ?I think
> Google should just apply the provided patch downstream. ?Upstream/Gary should
> drop that --allow-incomplete-gdb-indexes option completely, incl. dropping the
> GDB code for backward compatibility with .gdb_index v4 and v5.
Setting aside Google's needs,
If I were allowed to decide, I would require v4,v5 compatibility for
at least one release.