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Re: [RFA] Add support for --enable-lmcheck configure option.

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:55:23 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> This is absolutely wrong. Maybe some people might want to use it that
> way, but that is not my goal. It seemed easy to assume that, but that
> is not the case. I think it is a very valuable addition for developers,
> and I just fixed one buffer overflow thanks to it yesterday. And I expect
> that all AdaCore developers will be building GDB with -lmcheck, even
> the release versions.

OK, if it is therefore for the purpose of regular use of a development
snapshot (like what I did for Fedora Rawhide) then I agree it makes sense.

Still:

> I read your answer as: "I do not object, but I don't think it is useful".


Thanks,
Jan
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