RFC: Obsoleting some symbol readers?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sun May 12 16:48:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:47:48AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I was going through some cleanups to 'struct type' this evening and noticed
> more abuse of copying types in dstread.c and hpread.c.  dstread.c is only
> used by m68k-apollo-*, and I see that GCC 3.1 is deprecating this system;
> perhaps we should do the same for the next cycle?
> 
> hpread, unfortunately, I don't think I can dismiss that easily :(  Guess
> I'll have to fix it; it has similar problems to stabs with regard to
> replacing incomplete types.

Corollary to this:  dstread.c has not been compiled successfully since
at least 1995, when function_type was removed from struct type.  I
don't want to be the one to fix it :)

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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