Re: [PATCH][www] Add note that STABS is deprecated

[Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:28:16AM +0200, Richard Biener via Gcc-patches wrote:
> > This amends the caveats section of the GCC 12 release notes according
> > to the STABS deprecation.
> > 
> > I'll wait with pushing to the point it reflects the state on trunk
> > rather than projecting what will be the state for GCC 12.
> 
> Most of the ports actually default to emit DWARF5, some DWARF4, some DWARF2,
> so perhaps better would be to emit DWARF (version 2 or later) debugging info?

True, I adjusted the change accordingly.

Thanks,
Richard.

> > diff --git a/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html b/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
> > index 946faa49..c4a59c3b 100644
> > --- a/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
> > +++ b/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
> > @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ a work-in-progress.</p>
> >      which still supports <code>-std=f95</code> and is recommended to be used
> >      instead in general.
> >    </li>
> > +  <li>
> > +    <strong>STABS:</strong>
> > +    Support for emitting the STABS debugging format is deprecated and will
> > +    be removed in the next release.  All ports now default to emit DWARF2
> > +    debugging info.
> > +  </li>
> >  </ul>
> >  
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.31.1
> 
> 	Jakub
> 
>