From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25207 invoked by alias); 5 May 2003 17:37:02 -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 25199 invoked from network); 5 May 2003 17:37:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2003 17:37:02 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEECB2B2F; Mon, 5 May 2003 13:36:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3EB6A13B.9000908@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:37:00 -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: Elena Zannoni Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? References: <3EB499F9.1060708@redhat.com> <16053.28826.306073.730163@localhost.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 > Andrew Cagney writes: > > Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? > > . > > . > > deprecate Dwarf1 > > Not yet for mdebug, maybe mention something about it being queued for > deprecation in the NEWS/TODO file for the next release? If True64 uses mdebug, I might have access to a machine. Damd! > nlm... you mean nlmread.c or nlm/* ? `yes' (I was actually thinking of nlmread.c, but hey why not nlm/* as well ...). > google threw up a few things: > http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/fpcnw/gdbnw.html (seems active, uses 5.3). > http://www.herdsoft.com/ti/netware/cross/4_Debugging.html > There is a gdb wrapper program now that translated netware remote > protocol into gdb remote protocol and vice versa. So they are not > using NLM gdbserver anymore because that supports older versins of > netware only. Ok, so nlm/ is a candidate (but it isn't hurting anyone, and the alternative is written in FreePascal :-). The reader, though, appears to be stuck-in-the-mud (like DWARF). Andrew