From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31424 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2003 20:25:23 -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 31416 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 20:25:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 20:25:22 -0000 Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id A6E481A4291; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:25:19 -0500 (EST) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16296.2863.534858.73078@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:25:00 -0000 To: Kevin Buettner Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa:symtab] Delete stabs live range splitting support In-Reply-To: <1031104201430.ZM22436@localhost.localdomain> References: <3FA7F2CA.8070403@redhat.com> <1031104201430.ZM22436@localhost.localdomain> X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00050.txt.bz2 Kevin Buettner writes: > 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 groundhog day?? (the movie) Somebody pinch me. See the thread at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-06/msg00189.html which refers to another thread, which refers to another thread, which refers to another thread...... Yes kill it! Now! elena