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Re: [3/3] RFC - optional patch to restore DW_AT_data_member_location
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:42:09 -0600
- Subject: Re: [3/3] RFC - optional patch to restore DW_AT_data_member_location
- References: <87628cfbg2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <CADPb22R-+rTSRBH6HvVaGbeTkSt=4CJ3pUwO+zb726x4Jg+N+A@mail.gmail.com> <20120824165249.GA11867@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120902150440.GA24162@adacore.com>
Jan> The use case is that if not upstreamed I will have to continue
Jan> carrying on the patch up to date with HEAD for many further years
Jan> for compatibility with gfortran-4.1 in RHEL-5.y.
Joel> Personally, I think it is potentially helpful to have it in the FSF
Joel> tree unless it causes problems. I can certainly see someone upgrading
Joel> their GDB from source, while still using the compiler provided by the
Joel> system.
I'll include the patch when I commit this series.
Tom