Re: [PATCH] Default Alpha/VMS to DWARF2 debugging only

[Douglas Rupp <douglas.b.rupp@gmail.com>]

Dwarf2 only works with an ancient GDB. VMS style was useful because it
implemented enough to get a trace back.

But as you say it’s dead, so no basis for objection.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 6:47 AM Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 9/10/2021 12:52 AM, Richard Biener via Gcc-patches wrote:
> > This changes the default debug format for Alpha/VMS to DWARF2 only,
> > skipping emission of VMS debug info which is going do be deprecated
> > for GCC 12 alongside the support for STABS.
> >
> > It looks like other flavors of VMS never used VMS_DEBUG by default
> > but only the alpha port did.
> >
> > I have no good means to test anything here, it might be that we have
> > alpha-vms specific testcases that rely on the previous default.
> >
> > OK for trunk?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard.
> >
> > 2021-09-10  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
> >
> >       * config/alpha/vms.h (PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE): Define to
> >       DWARF2_DEBUG.
> It's a dead target, so yea, go for it.  Worst case it breaks someone
> notices and we know someone still cares about alpha-vms :-)
>
> Jeff
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