From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31088 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2003 23:53:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30914 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 23:52:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 23:52:37 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h08NOdB24206 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:24:39 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h08NqNa16714; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:52:23 -0500 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (romulus-int.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.46]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h08NqMe20574; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:52:22 -0500 Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id B19AEFF79; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:56:45 -0500 (EST) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15900.47805.353793.532788@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:53:00 -0000 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Elena Zannoni , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Cfront support --> obsolete it In-Reply-To: <3E1CB5EC.2090605@redhat.com> References: <15900.38091.155982.614095@localhost.redhat.com> <3E1CB5EC.2090605@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00103.txt.bz2 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 * 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 >