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From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Forgot to note
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33di46wkl.fsf@dan2.cygnus.com> (raw)

When the C++ abi moves to the new-abi, I can't fix stabs support
without either adding a whole bunch of cruft, or making it not support
the old ABI.

This is because things like gdb_mangle_name have to be changed to
handle the new mangling scheme.
So I have to either detect whether we have old-abi or new-abi
somewhere, and then add a whole bunch of "if gnu-new-abi" type
statements, or stop supporting the old abi for stabs/C++.

Currently, the consensus on gcc seems to be that linux should move to
dwarf2 before 3.0 releases, which would mean that stopping support for
new-abi/stabs would also be an option.

DWARF2 will work fine with either ABI automatically.

What should we do?
Not support new-abi/stabs?
Not support old-abi/stabs?
Support both? (this is a not insignificant amount of work).

--Dan


             reply	other threads:[~2000-10-10 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-10 17:38 Daniel Berlin [this message]
     [not found] ` <dberlin@redhat.com>
2000-10-10 18:19   ` Kevin Buettner
2000-10-10 19:42     ` Daniel Berlin
2000-10-10 23:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <20001010211904.49719@cse.cygnus.com>
     [not found]   ` <m3bswsds9s.fsf@dan2.cygnus.com>
2000-10-11  9:53     ` DJ Delorie
2000-10-11 12:51       ` Daniel Berlin
     [not found]     ` <20001011130611.11730@cse.cygnus.com>
2000-10-11 12:55       ` Daniel Berlin
     [not found] ` <39E4AEE2.2213F615@apple.com>
     [not found]   ` <39E4B09A.D096436F@eagercon.com>
2000-10-11 12:55     ` Daniel Berlin
2000-10-11 13:00       ` Michael Snyder

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