Re: Cfront support --> obsolete it

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Andrew Cagney writes:
 > > I have been looking at obsoleting the cfront support that was added in
 > > 1996 to gdb.
 > > 
 > > The code spans the following files:
 > > 
 > > buildsym.c
 > > dbxread.c
 > > gdbtypes.c
 > > mdebugread.c
 > > stabsread.c
 > > xcoffread.c
 > > 
 > > stabsread.h
 > > 
 > > I am preparing a patch to obsolete the code.
 > > It will be pulled after the next version of gdb goes out, as usual.
 > > 
 > > Does this impact anybody? I woudln't think so, since part of that
 > > code, I discovered, was already ifdef'ed out...
 > 
 > When you say `already ifdef'ed out...', how ifdef'd out?  Was it 
 > disabled to the point where it couldn't work?  If it was (and there has 
 > been an intervening GDB release) then I think the code can simply go.
 > 

in gdbtypes.c, cfront_mangle_name() is #if 0:

Thu Jul 25 19:41:31 1996  Fred Fish  <fnf@cygnus.com>

        * gdbtypes.c (cfront_mangle_name): #ifdef out unused function.

But at a deeper look, I don't know if this qualifies, apparently it
was already unused to start with.

Elena



 > Andrew
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