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Re: Patch: make mapped locations the default
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:29:24 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch: make mapped locations the default
- References: <m3myu6bi2u.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <200710260742.20014.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <m37il375dv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <200710312013.32515.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <472E5711.7000802@codesourcery.com> <m3wssxv80x.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <472E73E9.60709@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
Mark> Since this project has been around for so long, and was on the
Mark> 4.3 plan, my inclination is as follows:
Mark> 1. Disable column number output.
Mark> 2. Change the default.
Mark> Then, when column numbers are made to work, you can turn them on. (I
Mark> don't see any reason to have them on -- but broken -- while we fix the
Mark> bugs; it's easy enough for people who want to fix the problems to turn
Mark> them on locally.)
The problem with this, and the reason I suggested the opposite course,
is that I think the history of mapped locations shows that if we
disable this now, the bugs will simply never be fixed.
Still, I'll proceed on schedule unless someone else objects.
Tom