From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20315 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2004 18:27:16 -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 20308 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2004 18:27:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2004 18:27:16 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.32 #1 (Debian)) id 1BFdU1-0000YW-Ex; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:27:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:27:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: jimb@redhat.com, eliz@gnu.org, ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/dwarf] Eliminate dwarf2_tmp_obstack Message-ID: <20040419182705.GA1966@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , jimb@redhat.com, eliz@gnu.org, ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20040419182621.6D1704B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040419182621.6D1704B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00443.txt.bz2 On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:26:21PM -0400, Michael Chastain wrote: > 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? No. It was a parenthetical comment. It has nothing to do with any submitted patch. > 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. I do not know of any Linux distribution which changed the default to dwarf2. > My personal estimate/opinion is that gdb HEAD can drop support for gcc 2 > some time around October 2005. "Making the test results worse" is a far cry from "dropping support". -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer