On Sep 10, 2009, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:35:09AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:46:26PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >>> Jakub built gcc-4.4.1-10 earlier today, with a new feature that >>> generates much better debug information in optimized programs. >>> >>> The feature has been under development for a couple of years, and it's >>> recently been accepted into GCC, for GCC 4.5. We've backported it for >>> Fedora 12. >> >> Why are you backporting something like this from a non-released compiler >> into F12 _after_ Alpha and particularly _after_ the mass rebuild? > No response? None? It helps to Cc: me. There are hundreds of mailing lists I'm in that I don't open every day ;_) As Jakub said, this was planned to go in before. The merge into Fedora was delayed because there was a possibility of upstream rejection, based on opinions voiced some 1 or 2 years ago, when this work was still in early planning and development stages. Indeed, formal acceptance took much longer than anticipated, which is why this hit Fedora rawhide so late in the game. I can surely understand the feeling that, as a feature, it should have respected the feature freeze deadlines. But this feature also happens to be a major bug fix, for debug information in optimized programs way too often used to be incorrect and incomplete, to the point of being pretty much a show-stopper for systemtap and other monitoring, inspection and debugging tools that rely on debug information. As such, I apologize for the delays in getting buy-in from upstream and completing the work needed to get it in, and ask you to please tolerate the delays and the changes, let it into Fedora 12, and enjoy the better-quality debug information while debugging problems in time for Fedora 12 ;-) Thanks, -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
