From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2309 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2004 20:14:41 -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 2291 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2004 20:14:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Jun 2004 20:14:39 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5NKEce3008574 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:14:39 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5NKES010574; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:14:38 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0192B9D; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:14:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40D9E494.6030405@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:14:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: jimb@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Technical criteria for retaining symbol readers References: <20040623195109.E8A974B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> In-Reply-To: <20040623195109.E8A974B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00243.txt.bz2 > jimb> I'd also like to have some kind of requirement for testability. > > I would, too. My preference would be that we look at gdb-testers@ > and if there are no test results for feature X for the past N years, > that counts against keeping feature X. gcc uses that as one factor > in deciding whether to obsolete stuff. That's been suggested in the past. It was pointed out that some systems can't run the testsuite (DJGPP) so on its own it wasn't reasonable (neither is assuming that the presence of test results stops an architecture being removed :-). Andrew