Re: Product branches in the GDB repository?

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Bob Rossi wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:43:20AM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
>
> > Nick Roberts wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > (Does that mean Apple GDB should get a branch here too?
> > > > Interesting question...)
> > > In that case, do Apple intend to merge their changes with HEAD at some 
> > > stage?
> > > I am particularly interested in their changes to GDB/MI.
> > I can't speak for our future plans, but I personally would like to
> > make it happen, and I recently got reassigned to debugger hacking,
> > which gives us a 33% increase in our GDB hack power. So there's
> > some reason for optimism.
>
> It would certainly benefit everyone if you guys could contribute back.
> For example, I'm probably going to be reimplementing some MI features
> you guys already have. I hate to do that if the work has already been
> done. (ie. Asyncronous commands need to return the type of command they
> are, so the command can be analsized semantically)
Absolutely we want to work together on this. I'm being careful
not to overpromise because there has been some unfortunate history
(an euphemism for past interactions now described by all sides
with unprintable words :-) ) in connection with Apple and GDB.

Much of my work now is just in reading all the code and figuring
out where things are even at - although it would have been truly
studly to keep up on all the GDB doings while hacking on GCC,
in actuality I've run into my brain limits and GCC bits have
displaced much of my old GDB knowledge. :-(

Stan