[PATCH] gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Wed Jan 9 16:54:00 GMT 2019


>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> writes:

Simon> We're talking about really old programs here.  IIUC, the GNU v2
Simon> mangling was used in the GCC 2.95 era, which is around 2002.  I think
Simon> it's fine to drop support for this.  If you had a system from that
Simon> era, you would have a hard time compiling today's GDB on it.  And even
Simon> if you just had an old binary on a recent systems, well the older GDB
Simon> releases are always available.

FWIW, I agree.  This is old enough to drop.
We can always resurrect the code if there's a compelling reason, but I
don't think that will have to happen.

Tom



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