From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 123142 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2019 16:54:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 123125 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jan 2019 16:54:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: gateway20.websitewelcome.com Received: from gateway20.websitewelcome.com (HELO gateway20.websitewelcome.com) (192.185.53.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:53:58 +0000 Received: from cm17.websitewelcome.com (cm17.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.20]) by gateway20.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F1D400C5F4E for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:53:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id hH77gph9y90onhH77gJiGt; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:53:57 -0600 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=3EnAOYU/gDpe7+ZBoarzyzvb83ZuRcb0Jf5351BQMok=; b=Wo5Ui7RIEDqOpfVOjir+Tj3LhI cLB5E1EPicr9VcTTwsEOMNO20x5i3vLyv+93upQf+a0Cdr35wkuEdVnhdYyDxcbBdxTuh49DUUlVC 1Ax8fHAVjlwvSfx7I/KHn3Ex5; Received: from 75-166-72-210.hlrn.qwest.net ([75.166.72.210]:40328 helo=murgatroyd) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1ghH76-003Tbv-Pg; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:53:56 -0600 From: Tom Tromey To: Simon Marchi Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Simon Marchi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes References: <20190108232208.17487-1-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <83lg3uijqd.fsf@gnu.org> <07d8a0b070a8add802ae30ab37a780db@polymtl.ca> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <07d8a0b070a8add802ae30ab37a780db@polymtl.ca> (Simon Marchi's message of "Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:11:46 -0500") Message-ID: <874lahrcv0.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.90 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-01/txt/msg00195.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi writes: Simon> We're talking about really old programs here. IIUC, the GNU v2 Simon> mangling was used in the GCC 2.95 era, which is around 2002. I think Simon> it's fine to drop support for this. If you had a system from that Simon> era, you would have a hard time compiling today's GDB on it. And even Simon> if you just had an old binary on a recent systems, well the older GDB Simon> releases are always available. FWIW, I agree. This is old enough to drop. We can always resurrect the code if there's a compelling reason, but I don't think that will have to happen. Tom