Re: [3/3] RFC - optional patch to restore DW_AT_data_member_location

Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-24T16:53:26Z

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:12:08 +0200, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I consider this patch optional, because I think it is too much
> > complicated code in support of a marginal and obsolete feature.
> > However, I wrote it in case someone thinks that supporting 4 year old
> > versions of gfortran is important.
>
> I'm all for holding off until someone presents a *compelling* use case.

The use case is that if not upstreamed I will have to continue carrying on the
patch up to date with HEAD for many further years for compatibility with
gfortran-4.1 in RHEL-5.y.

Sure it may not be compelling for FSF GDB, I am fine with that.
FYI older GCCs are still actively in use, even if not actively then just due
to existing built binaries/libraries.

Thanks,
Jan