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Re: [RFA/dwarf] Eliminate dwarf2_tmp_obstack
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com>
- Cc: jimb at redhat dot com, eliz at gnu dot org, ezannoni at redhat dot com,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:27:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA/dwarf] Eliminate dwarf2_tmp_obstack
- References: <20040419182621.6D1704B104@berman.michael-chastain.com>
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:26:21PM -0400, Michael Chastain wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> > That's OK, you're right on all counts anyway. The bug does not render
> > GCC 2.95 code undebuggable; it just interferes with prologue skipping
> > and setting breakpoints on the first line of functions, in some cases.
> > Both of which are testsuite is heavily biased towards.
>
> Ummm, just to be clear, you're not about to make the test results worse
> with gcc 2.95.3, are you?
No. It was a parenthetical comment. It has nothing to do with any
submitted patch.
> BTW, gcc 2.95.3 on native i686-pc-linux-gnu does indeed default to
> stabs+, but who knows what the default is on various distros. And here
> is a quick list of some gcc-2 based distros: freebsd 4, netbsd 1.6,
> openbsd 3.4, debian 3.0, vine 2.6, gnoppix 0.6, lindows 4.5,
> lycoris build3.
I do not know of any Linux distribution which changed the default to
dwarf2.
> My personal estimate/opinion is that gdb HEAD can drop support for gcc 2
> some time around October 2005.
"Making the test results worse" is a far cry from "dropping support".
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer