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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:21:50AM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> It seems like the use of gdbarch_addr_bits_remove originated in 2001:
> 
> 2001-04-06  Fernando Nasser  <fnasser@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* buildsym.c (record_line): Turn off unused addr bits.
> 
> Could we try simply removing this?

It was for Thumb in the first place.

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2001-03/msg00182.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2001-04/msg00012.html

That may not be true on new toolchains though.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery