[rfa:symtab] Delete stabs live range splitting support

Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
Tue Nov 4 20:25:00 GMT 2003


Kevin Buettner writes:
 > On Nov 4,  1:41pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
 > 
 > > GCC never officially supported it, and its bloating each symbol by ~20%.
 > > 
 > > Tested on PPC NetBSD which is still using stabs.
 > 
 > Does anyone know which ports this code originally benefited?  Does any
 > existing port still use it?  (A brief inspection of the ChangeLog files
 > hasn't turned up anything useful.)
 > 
 > Kevin

groundhog day?? (the movie) Somebody pinch me.

See the thread at:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-06/msg00189.html which refers to
another thread, which refers to another thread, which refers to
another thread......

Yes kill it! Now!

elena



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