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From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>,
	David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>,
	Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Default debug format for AVR
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:41:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ee7a0a1-1c2f-97a5-b169-e01ea4439f17@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e6f1f9b-13cf-c82c-a67b-b35cde4e2e31@polymtl.ca>


On 4/8/2021 8:06 AM, Simon Marchi via Gcc wrote:
> 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 unilaterally make this decision without
>> discussion with all affected ports and maintainers, without warning,
>> and without deprecation.  I request that you rescind this decision.
>>
>> It is somewhat ironic to act as a dictator when we are having a
>> discussion about dictatorial behavior in GCC leadership.
> I don't really want to start such a debate about GCC politics.  If stabs
> is not ready to be deleted, that's fine.  But it would be good to go
> through all targets for which it is the default (like avr), and see if
> they are ready to be switched to DWARF.  That's a baby step towards
> eventually deleting it.

Agreed.  I'd bet AIX is the outlier here and that most, if not all, 
other ports that may currently be stabs-by-default can switch to 
dwarf-by-default with no significant fallout.  So we fix everything we 
can while we wait for AIX to move forward.


jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-04  1:24 Simon Marchi
2021-04-05 19:36 ` Jim Wilson
2021-04-05 20:54   ` Simon Marchi
2021-04-06 10:33     ` Richard Biener
2021-04-07 23:17       ` David Edelsohn
2021-04-08  6:03         ` Richard Biener
2021-04-08 13:11           ` David Edelsohn
2021-04-08 14:06             ` Simon Marchi
2021-04-08 14:41               ` Jeff Law [this message]
2021-04-08 16:09                 ` David Edelsohn
2021-04-08 16:46                   ` David Edelsohn
2021-04-13 16:04                   ` Jeff Law
2021-04-08 14:05           ` Richard Biener

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