From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19269 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2004 18:25:44 -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 19259 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2004 18:25:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mclean.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2004 18:25:44 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BFdSi-0001YA-00; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:25:44 -0400 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6D1704B104; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:26:21 -0400 (EDT) To: drow@false.org, jimb@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/dwarf] Eliminate dwarf2_tmp_obstack Cc: eliz@gnu.org, ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <20040419182621.6D1704B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:25:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00442.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > That's OK, you're right on all counts anyway. The bug does not render > GCC 2.95 code undebuggable; it just interferes with prologue skipping > and setting breakpoints on the first line of functions, in some cases. > Both of which are testsuite is heavily biased towards. Ummm, just to be clear, you're not about to make the test results worse with gcc 2.95.3, are you? BTW, gcc 2.95.3 on native i686-pc-linux-gnu does indeed default to stabs+, but who knows what the default is on various distros. And here is a quick list of some gcc-2 based distros: freebsd 4, netbsd 1.6, openbsd 3.4, debian 3.0, vine 2.6, gnoppix 0.6, lindows 4.5, lycoris build3. My personal estimate/opinion is that gdb HEAD can drop support for gcc 2 some time around October 2005. Michael C