Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

2024-05-02 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 5/2/24 2:47 AM, Richard Biener via Overseers wrote:> We'd only know for sure if we try. But then I'm almost 100% sure that > having to click in a GUI is slower than 'nrOK^X' in the text-mode mail UA > I am using for "quick" patch review. It might be comparable to the > review parts I do in th

Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

2024-05-01 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2024-05-01 16:53, Tom Tromey via Overseers wrote: > Mark> See also https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30997 > Mark> We really should automate this. There are several people running > Mark> scripts by hand. The easiest would be to simply run it from a git > Mark> hook. patchwork

Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

2024-04-23 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2024-04-23 11:08, Tom Tromey wrote: >> Indeed. Though Patchwork is another option for patch tracking, that >> glibc seem to be having success with. > > We tried this in gdb as well. It was completely unworkable -- you have > to manually clear out the patch queue, meaning it's normally full

Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

2024-04-22 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2024-04-22 22:55, Jason Merrill via Overseers wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 11:42 AM Tom Tromey wrote: > >>> "Frank" == Frank Ch Eigler writes: >> [...] I suggest that a basic principle for such a system is that it should be *easy* to obtain and maintain a local copy of the

Re: Patches submission policy change

2024-04-04 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2024-04-04 17:35, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 10:22:24AM +0200, Christophe Lyon via Gdb wrote: >> TL;DR: For the sake of improving precommit CI coverage and simplifying >> workflows, I’d like to request a patch submission policy change, so >> that we now

Re: Patches submission policy change

2024-04-03 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 4/3/24 4:22 AM, Christophe Lyon via Gdb wrote: > Dear release managers and developers, > > TL;DR: For the sake of improving precommit CI coverage and simplifying > workflows, I’d like to request a patch submission policy change, so > that we now include regenerated files. This was discussed dur

Re: [RFC] add regenerate Makefile target

2024-03-30 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2024-03-15 10:25, Tom Tromey wrote: > gdb used to use a mish-mash of different approaches, some quite strange, > but over the last few years we standardized on Python scripts that > generate files. They're written to be seamless -- just invoke in the > source dir; the output is then just par

Re: [RFC] add regenerate Makefile target

2024-03-20 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 3/18/24 13:25, Christophe Lyon wrote: > Well the rule to regenerate Makefile.in (eg in in opcodes/) is a bit > more complex > than just calling automake. IIUC it calls automake --foreign it any of > *.m4 file from $(am__configure_deps) that is newer than Makefile.in > (with an early exit in the

Re: [RFC] add regenerate Makefile target

2024-03-20 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 3/18/24 13:28, Christophe Lyon via Gdb wrote: > I'm not up-to-date with gdb's policy about patches: are they supposed > to be posted with or without the regenerated parts included? > IIUC they are not included in patch submissions for binutils and gcc, > which makes the pre-commit CI miss some p

Re: [RFC] add regenerate Makefile target

2024-03-16 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2024-03-15 04:50, Christophe Lyon via Gdb wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 19:10, Simon Marchi wrote: >> My first thought it: why is it a Makefile target, instead of some script >> on the side (like autoregen.sh). It would be nice / useful to be >> able to it without configuring / building a

Re: [RFC] add regenerate Makefile target

2024-03-14 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2024-03-13 04:02, Christophe Lyon via Gdb wrote: > Hi! > > After recent discussions on IRC and on the lists about maintainer-mode > and various problems with auto-generated source files, I've written > this small prototype. > > Based on those discussions, I assumed that people generally wan

Re: Default debug format for AVR

2021-04-08 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2021-04-08 9:11 a.m., David Edelsohn wrote: >>> AIX continues to use and support STABS, although it is transitioning >>> to DWARF. If this is intended as a general statement about removal of >>> STABS support in GCC, >> >> Yes, it is. >> >> Richard. > > Richard, > > It is inappropriate to uni

Re: Default debug format for AVR

2021-04-05 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2021-04-05 3:36 p.m., Jim Wilson wrote:> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 6:24 PM Simon Marchi via Gcc mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org>> wrote: > > The default debug format (when using only -g) for the AVR target is > stabs. Is there a reason for it not being DWARF, and would it be

Default debug format for AVR

2021-04-03 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
Hi, The default debug format (when using only -g) for the AVR target is stabs. Is there a reason for it not being DWARF, and would it be possible to maybe consider possibly thinking about making it default to DWARF? I am asking because the support for stabs in GDB is pretty much untested and bit

Re: Split DWARF and rnglists, gcc vs clang

2020-11-13 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2020-11-13 10:18 a.m., Mark Wielaard wrote: > That too, but I was actually referring to the sections that define > Range List and Location List Tables (7.28 and 7.29) which define the > meaning of DW_AT_rnglists_base and DW_AT_loclists_base. But you could > also look at 3.1.3 Split Full Compilat

Re: Split DWARF and rnglists, gcc vs clang

2020-11-13 Thread Simon Marchi via Gcc
On 2020-11-12 7:11 p.m., Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 11:11:43PM -0500, Simon Marchi wrote: >> I'm currently squashing some bugs related to .debug_rnglists in GDB, and >> I happened to notice that clang and gcc do different things when >> generating rnglists with spl