[PATCH v2] gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Jan 9 15:39:00 GMT 2019


> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> Date: Tue,  8 Jan 2019 23:50:32 -0500
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> index 4bca933195c9..ffc702937b7a 100644
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -10703,31 +10703,9 @@ or demangled form.
>  @cindex symbol decoding style, C@t{++}
>  @kindex set demangle-style
>  @item set demangle-style @var{style}
> -Choose among several encoding schemes used by different compilers to
> -represent C@t{++} names.  The choices for @var{style} are currently:
> -
> -@table @code
> -@item auto
> -Allow @value{GDBN} to choose a decoding style by inspecting your program.
> -This is the default.

Are we removing 'auto' as well?  If not, why do we want to un-document
it?

> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index c9e801c33efe..14c859f8f6af 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
>    source code snippets.  See the "set style" commands, below, for more
>    information.
>  
> +* Removed support for old demangling styles arm, edg, gnu, hp and
> +  lucid.
> +

This part is OK.

Thanks.



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