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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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In-Reply-To: <20230119174156.654402-1-tom@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecate stabs
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> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:41:56 -0700
> 
> I think it's time to deprecate stabs, and plan to remove all support
> for them.  Stabs are long since obsolete and are not really maintained
> in gdb.  GCC deprecated them in 12 and will remove them as well.

IMO, we should remove support for stabs _after_ GCC, not before and
not together with it.  Not sure if "GDB 15" fits that.