From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20698 invoked by alias); 5 May 2003 17:30:53 -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 20680 invoked from network); 5 May 2003 17:30:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2003 17:30:53 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E14752B2F; Mon, 5 May 2003 13:30:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3EB69FCA.70409@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:30:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Combs Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , dberlin@dberlin.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? References: <200305041608.h44G8PwG012287@duracef.shout.net> <20030505102345.B11039@urbana.css.mot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 > I don't think its a fair measure to equate number of patches with value. The number of patches does at least hint at the level of activity. As for value, part of a value judgment is determining the cost. > 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. Significant structural change, such as adding support for multiple address spaces, moves more rapidly when there are fewer debug readers to content with. These users potential loss is someone elses potential gain. These users can also continue to use an existing GDB. As someone (michael?) suggested, can these users move to Free compilers? >> 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. Andrew