From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1536 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2003 22:26:21 -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 1514 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 22:26:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 22:26:20 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8722B8F; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:26:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FA82788.50401@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:26:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elena Zannoni Cc: Kevin Buettner , Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa:symtab] Delete stabs live range splitting support References: <3FA7F2CA.8070403@redhat.com> <1031104201430.ZM22436@localhost.localdomain> <16296.2863.534858.73078@localhost.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 > Kevin Buettner writes: > > On Nov 4, 1:41pm, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > > > GCC never officially supported it, and its bloating each symbol by ~20%. > > > > > > Tested on PPC NetBSD which is still using stabs. > > > > Does anyone know which ports this code originally benefited? Does any > > existing port still use it? (A brief inspection of the ChangeLog files > > hasn't turned up anything useful.) > > > > Kevin > > groundhog day?? (the movie) Somebody pinch me. > > See the thread at: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-06/msg00189.html which refers to > another thread, which refers to another thread, which refers to > another thread...... > > Yes kill it! Now! Gone. I guess if anything breaks it's now my fault ... Andrew