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Re: [RFC] Do we need to support PIE + stabs?
- From: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- To: Tom de Vries <tdevries at suse dot de>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:39:20 -0600
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Do we need to support PIE + stabs?
- References: <20190816155753.GA22229@delia> <87y2xudlj5.fsf@tromey.com> <79870605-9b6b-bee0-ea91-99303c79f220@suse.de>
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:
>> Do we need to support PIE + stabs? Can we just declare stabs as mostly
>> dead and ignore this instead? On the whole that would be my preference,
>> if it's possible, because in my view this more closely mirrors
>> reality... my understanding is that, last time anybody checked, stabs
>> were still used by a few programs in a typical distro (for some unknown
>> reason), but otherwise they are just totally obsolete.
Tom> I don't know the answer to that, and I think it's a question broader
Tom> than suggested by the current subject, so, promoting the question to the
Tom> subject.
No-one has answered yet...
I still think the answer is "no" for the reasons outlined above.
thanks,
Tom