Re: RFA: Remove unused support for target-based exception handling

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:19:11PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> (I'd been hoping that this would let me delete print_frame_label_vars,
> but when I got back there it turned out I'd misread the code, and
> instead we now use it unconditionally... sigh.)

I suspect you can delete that and still leave things unchanged; you'd
have to check, but I'm reasonably certain that you have to go back to
g++ 2.7 or even earlier to find the generated code that routine is
trying to support.

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:29:13AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> > Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:19:11 -0800
> > 
> > This was kind of like finding something old and nasty in the back of
> > the fridge.  :)
> 
> Could you (or someone else) perhaps tell the history of this code?
> Like when it was introduced and for what purposes, and how it became
> unused?

It was part of the Great HP Merge, in 1998.  The changelog entry is
the first 2575 lines of ChangeLog-1998.  HP-UX apparently had some OS
facility used for catching C++ exceptions; this was specific to the
aCC compiler, not G++ on HP-UX, and support for that compiler was
removed from GDB at the beginning of this year.

> Also, doesn't the manual needs to be fixed if we remove this?

The feature is still there, and will still work for g++ 3.x / 4.x
compiled code, and any other compiler using the common C++ ABI.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery