Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:43:26PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > >Because we really want it in F12, to make e.g. systemtap usable. It got > >quite a lot of testing already and has been in development for 2 years. > >Originally it was expected to be merged early in the summer, testing > >rawhide gccs have been prepared already in early August. > > So systemtap wasn't considered usable before this? I am not a GCC > expert, but I can see how this feature would help it. But it was surely > usable before this, right? Better debuginfo and better systemtap tracing support is part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapTracingRefresh which is targetted at F12. But better variable tracking in the dwarf output of gcc will also help other observability tools in Fedora (like the updated gdb/archer). Cheers, Mark -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
