From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22139 invoked by alias); 5 May 2003 15:23:52 -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 22131 invoked from network); 5 May 2003 15:23:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO motgate5.mot.com) (144.189.100.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2003 15:23:51 -0000 Received: from il06exr04.mot.com (il06exr04.mot.com [129.188.137.134]) by motgate5.mot.com (Motorola/Motgate5) with ESMTP id h45FNosI028284 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 08:23:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from udc.urbana.css.mot.com (udc.urbana.css.mot.com [192.88.153.21]) by il06exr04.mot.com (Motorola/il06exr04) with ESMTP id h45FNmQx004820 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 10:23:48 -0500 Received: from tmclinux.urbana.css.mot.com (tmclinux.urbana.css.mot.com [192.88.153.36]) by udc.urbana.css.mot.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h45FNlM00756; Mon, 5 May 2003 10:23:47 -0500 (CDT) X-POPI: The contents of this message are Motorola Internal Use Only (MIUO) unless indicated otherwise in the message. Received: (from tcombs@localhost) by tmclinux.urbana.css.mot.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h45FNju11081; Mon, 5 May 2003 10:23:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 15:23:00 -0000 From: Tim Combs To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: dberlin@dberlin.org, ac131313@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? Message-ID: <20030505102345.B11039@urbana.css.mot.com> References: <200305041608.h44G8PwG012287@duracef.shout.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200305041608.h44G8PwG012287@duracef.shout.net>; from mec@shout.net on Sun, May 04, 2003 at 12:08:25PM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 I don't think its a fair measure to equate number of patches with value. I've still got users who are using commercial compilers that emit dwarf1 and it would be a great loss to these users if dwarf1 went away. Tim > Here is the URL for one guy who has a diab compiler and wanted > to improve gdb dwarf-1 support: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-07/msg00505.html > > That's the extent of interest in dwarf-1: two people in the past year > with diab compiler: this guy, and one other that I didn't dig up > the URL for yet. > > Michael C