From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14789 invoked by alias); 5 May 2003 17:24:53 -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 14779 invoked from network); 5 May 2003 17:24:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.red-bean.com) (12.222.151.100) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2003 17:24:52 -0000 Received: from zenia.red-bean.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h45HTvFq004494; Mon, 5 May 2003 12:29:58 -0500 Received: (from jimb@localhost) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h45HTvGN004490; Mon, 5 May 2003 12:29:57 -0500 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? References: <3EB499F9.1060708@redhat.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3EB499F9.1060708@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.95 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm? I don't think there'll be a problem with Dwarf 1 going. I do seem to remember working with mdebug more recently, so I'm less sure about that. If we do deprecate these things, I think GDB should squawk whenever it sees them. I think the lesson to be learned from the "annotation level two" story is that simply putting an item in NEWS isn't enough to get people to warn us if they're unhappy about a deprecation. Perhaps, even after support for those formats is removed, GDB should continue to print a message like, "This executable file contains some debugging information in the Dwarf 1 format, which GDB is no longer able to read."