From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23630 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2003 20:14:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23616 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 20:14:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 20:14:38 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hA4KEbM26229 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:14:37 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hA4KEb619013 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:14:37 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (vpn50-2.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.2]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hA4KEaJm018253; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:14:36 -0500 Received: (from kev@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hA4KEVT22437; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:14:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:14:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner Message-Id: <1031104201430.ZM22436@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney "[rfa:symtab] Delete stabs live range splitting support" (Nov 4, 1:41pm) References: <3FA7F2CA.8070403@redhat.com> To: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa:symtab] Delete stabs live range splitting support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 On Nov 4, 1:41pm, Andrew Cagney wrote: > GCC never officially supported it, and its bloating each symbol by ~20%. > > Tested on PPC NetBSD which is still using stabs. Does anyone know which ports this code originally benefited? Does any existing port still use it? (A brief inspection of the ChangeLog files hasn't turned up anything useful.) Kevin