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Re: Status of submitted patches? Pascal language addition patch.
- To: David Taylor <taylor at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Status of submitted patches? Pascal language addition patch.
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 12:41:13 +1100
- CC: Pierre Muller <muller at cerbere dot u-strasbg dot fr>, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <200002011920.OAA02797@texas.cygnus.com>
David Taylor wrote:
>
> From: Pierre Muller <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>
> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 18:02:13 +0100
>
> I submitted a big patch for adding Pascal Language support in GDB
> already 1999/10/22.
>
> I'm afraid that I don't remember much about the patch; nor do I have a
> copy of it stashed away.
>
> Small patches are better than big patches.
>
> The larger the patch the longer it takes to read and evaluate -- and
> it is definitely non linear. Up to a point it seems to be roughly
> quadratic -- double the size of the patch and it takes maybe four
> times longer to understand it.
>
> Please resubmit the patch (against a recent snapshot) and we'll try to
> do better this time around.
Um, I'd actually suggest holding back for a few days. Once sourceware
is the main repository (next week) things will be much easier.
Andrew