RFC: Obsoleting some symbol readers?

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Sun May 12 20:46:00 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 :)

os9kread.c has already been bug reported for obsolecence.

If nothing else bug report these.  Hmm, lets just obsolete the entire 
apollo line ...

Andrew




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