From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11596 invoked by alias); 4 May 2003 15:41:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11546 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 15:41:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (146.82.138.56) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 15:41:43 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19CLcn-0001uW-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 10:42:01 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19CLcP-0003B2-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 11:41:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 15:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? Message-ID: <20030504154137.GA12099@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <3EB499F9.1060708@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EB499F9.1060708@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 12:41:29AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? > . > . > . > Any one even got an idea as to the consequences? dwarf: We got a bug report (with patch, that I need to look at...) for a Diab compiler that emits DWARF 1. There are still widely used DWARF hardware debuggers, too - not a big deal for us, just a reference point. I'd say deprecate it. mdebug: Joel's been actively fixing bugs in this as I recall. Tru64 uses it. I don't think we can do that just yet. nlm: Just make it go away... -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer