[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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