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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] gdb: Deprecate stabs debug info
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:47:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877c6xs5pg.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250113181359.1286957-1-guinevere@redhat.com> (Guinevere Larsen's message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:13:59 -0300")

>>>>> "Guinevere" == Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com> writes:

Guinevere> As pointed out in the previous discussion on this topic[1], there are
Guinevere> several existing issues on the code, and none of the current maintainers
Guinevere> knows how to fix it.  Unless someone steps up to fix this before the
Guinevere> removal on GDB 18, I don't see why we should keep this old code that
Guinevere> breaks all conventions of modern debuginfo readers and doesn't even
Guinevere> work, instead of being able to further advance adjacent code.

I completely agree.
I'm in favor of this patch but I think you should wait a little while in
case there are any objections.

Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>

Also please add this trailer:

Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31210

thanks,
Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-14 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-13 18:13 Guinevere Larsen
2025-01-13 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-13 19:01   ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-01-14 16:47 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2025-01-14 17:58 ` Andrew Burgess
2025-01-20  5:22 ` Tom de Vries
2025-01-27 12:08 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-01-27 18:47 ` [PATCH v2] " Guinevere Larsen
2025-01-27 19:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-28 17:47   ` Tom Tromey
2025-01-28 19:23     ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-02-10 18:47     ` Guinevere Larsen

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