Re: [RFA] mips32_next_pc overdue cleanup

Andrew Cagney
2001-07-05T13:51:00Z

> Thanks. I'm curious.
>
> Is there a CVS repository backed up somewhere which predates 1999, when
> it seems the sourceware copy was created? Makes it a little more
> challenging to do the archaelogy.

There is the archive of some of the old releases that Jason Molenda put
together:

${sources-shadow}/pub/gdb/old-releases/

and Red Hat employees do occasionally act as a remote archive search
engine (back to ~1991). However, prior to that there is little.

>> One thing, it is very easy for a software single step function to be
>> implemented yet never tested - everything supports h/w singlestep
>> now-a-days.
>
>
> Everything except my target :)
>
> The thing is, the (trivial) software single step function wasn't even
> in mips-tdep.c. Only all the complicated support routines for it were.
> The lossage isn't all that surprising, given that these functions had
> no callers.

Perhaphs -Wunused-function should be the next -Werror :-)

Andrew