obsolete directories in src tree: mmalloc, iwidgets, blt

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Wed Apr 5 17:48:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:27:28PM -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> My understanding is that mmalloc is also no longer used but it does have
> a lot of gdb tags on the files and it has been in use more recently.  At
> the top level ChangeLog I find:
> 
> 2005-02-08  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
>         * MAINTAINERS: Delete reference to dejagnu/ and mmalloc/ from the
>         gdb/ section.  Update GDB's URL.
> 
> So I think that is when mmalloc stopped being used.  The dejagnu
> directory seems to have already been removed but the mmalloc directory
> is still there.

It stopped being used long before.  It continued to be checked out and
shipped until around then.

> So, should these three directories (blt, iwidgets, mmalloc) be deleted?

I think yes.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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