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Re: Cfront support --> obsolete it
Andrew Cagney writes:
> > I have been looking at obsoleting the cfront support that was added in
> > 1996 to gdb.
> >
> > The code spans the following files:
> >
> > buildsym.c
> > dbxread.c
> > gdbtypes.c
> > mdebugread.c
> > stabsread.c
> > xcoffread.c
> >
> > stabsread.h
> >
> > I am preparing a patch to obsolete the code.
> > It will be pulled after the next version of gdb goes out, as usual.
> >
> > Does this impact anybody? I woudln't think so, since part of that
> > code, I discovered, was already ifdef'ed out...
>
> When you say `already ifdef'ed out...', how ifdef'd out? Was it
> disabled to the point where it couldn't work? If it was (and there has
> been an intervening GDB release) then I think the code can simply go.
>
in gdbtypes.c, cfront_mangle_name() is #if 0:
Thu Jul 25 19:41:31 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
* gdbtypes.c (cfront_mangle_name): #ifdef out unused function.
But at a deeper look, I don't know if this qualifies, apparently it
was already unused to start with.
Elena
> Andrew
>