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Re: [PATCH] gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes

From: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
To: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:59:23 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes
References: <20190108232208.17487-1-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <e8dcdefe-5f8f-6e1b-116f-f4bf166d55c6@redhat.com>

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> writes:

Keith> The manual talks about several demangling-related features which
Keith> raised questions for me about the general support for gnu-v2 code. If
Keith> libiberty is removing support for v2 demangling, how useful will GDB be
Keith> without the ability to demangle v2 symbols? Should we deprecate or remove
Keith> that, too? /me opens can of worms

I tend to think removing the GNU v2 ABI support would be fine.
It's long since obsolete.  If someone out there still requires gcc 2.95,
I suppose they can either build an old gdb as well, or use "set lang c".

Tom

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- [PATCH] gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes
  - From: Simon Marchi
- Re: [PATCH] gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes
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