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Re: pending patches status ?


> 
> The step/next patch is still unresolved - Todd brought up some
> concerns that I share; while I like to delete code, I also like to
> know why I can do it. :-) Basically we need to do some historical
> research to understand if this used to work, and if so, how it came to
> be broken.  For instance, if this worked in a snap from December, it's
> probably a side effect of HP's changes.
> 
I use gdb for years now (starting with gdb-4.9), and I don't think it ever
worked on my platform (m68k-motorola-sysv).  At least since years it doesn't,
so that I thought it was a feature :
"`step', `next' and `finish' are not allowed in breakpoints command lists".
What is perhaps new is the test, so I noticed that it was expected to work and
I tried to find out why it did not work.  Of course, I feel the same concerns
about the reasons of the code I turned off,  but I ran the whole testsuite
on both m68k-motorola-sysv and powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.5.0 without new failures,
so I think it is a safe change.

Philippe