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Re: FYI: GCC dropped score support
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:35:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: FYI: GCC dropped score support
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On 10/07/2014 01:18 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> It seems pretty dead, the company's pages are 404, and the only
>> product I can find that used it was the Mattel HyperScan, introduced in
>> 2006 and discontinued in 2008 - apparently it made PC World's "10 Worst
>> Videogames of All Time" list.
Eh. :-)
>> Even if the code isn't being used, I think it still costs us, in the
>> sense that we have to think about whether it needs changing, it has
>> to be patchedwhen there are global changes, and so forth. So I
>> think we should whack it soon as decently possible. (Of course, the
>> code will actually live on forever, in old releases and repos. :-) )
>
> Seen under this light, it does make sense!
Agreed, that's my thinking too. For still-fresh examples, the software
single-step rework work had me stop, think and actually write patches
for IRIX (deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint). And then just last week
I failed to notice some code was for Tru64 and wasted time writing
this patch:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-10/msg00035.html
Thanks,
Pedro Alves