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Re: [3/3] RFC - optional patch to restore DW_AT_data_member_location
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:04:40 -0400
- 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>
> The use case is that if not upstreamed I will have to continue carrying on the
> patch up to date with HEAD for many further years for compatibility with
> gfortran-4.1 in RHEL-5.y.
>
> Sure it may not be compelling for FSF GDB, I am fine with that.
Personally, I think it is potentially helpful to have it in the FSF
tree unless it causes problems. I can certainly see someone upgrading
their GDB from source, while still using the compiler provided by the
system.
--
Joel