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Re: [PATCH] remove ECOFF
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, tromey at redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:51:22 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ECOFF
- References: <1376936369-30712-1-git-send-email-tromey at redhat dot com>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:19:28 -0600
>
> A while ago I proposed deprecating ECOFF support.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2012-12/msg00052.html
>
> I've finally implemented this.
>
> Built (--enable-targets=all) and regested on x86-64 Fedora 18. Of
> course, there wouldn't be any regressions, since this is removing a
> feature not used or tested. But still.
>
> If you grep the sources for mdebug, you will still see a few hits.
The problem is that mdebug isn't really tied to ECOFF. IIRC, the GNU
tools used to emit some basic mdebug code, and people used to add
assembler directives that would emit mdebug frame info. That code was
useful for getting proper backtraces through code that didn't have
stabd/dwarf debug information. Did you verify that GDB is still
useful on an Alpha systems after this removal?