From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: gdb 5.0 and yamd Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:16:35 -0200 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3A679573.88654BD4@uol.com.br> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 200-221-14-196.dsl-sp.uol.com.br (200.221.14.196) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 979867046 13246870 200.221.14.196 (16 [39218]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Cesar Rabak wrote: > > > If we make the modifications, in order to submit the code and binaries > > modified, is there any kind of regression tests? > > If you tried the testing script I put into the source distribution, > you could run it before and after the change. It doesn't run the > entire test suite yet, but it's better than nothing. Sure! > > But most important, simply use the debugger for some time in serious > work, and if it doesn't show any signs of problems, the changes are > probably right. I have write access to the GDB CVS tree, so I can > commit changes specific to DJGPP if I think they are okay. Will do this, of course! We still have to find the bug in our simulation software ;-( > > But I don't understand the ``and binaries'' part above. Surely, you > meant to submit source-level diffs, no? I thought it would be a good idea to have available an already compiled gdb and its library available as soon the diffs get validated. I will submit the diffs, and I'm surmising that automatically leads to an update of the packages after a while is it correct? > > > I'm asking this because the changes seem to be small. May I stumble in a > > wall. . . > > They are small, but they touch a very sensitive place in debug > support: exceptions, memory protection, etc. Caveat emptor... I noticed that... will try and share the results here (even if not successful, may help others)!