Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm?

Andrew Cagney
2003-05-08T23:42:13Z

Just FYI, it's dead code elimination, and not the desire to save a few
extra bytes, that is the motivating force behind this discussion.

GDB is always looking to remove code that:

- is not used
- is out-of-date

Out-of-date code (relying on almost defunct interfaces) is always a problem.

Andrew

>> Ok, so nlm/ is a candidate (but it isn't hurting anyone, and
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> I cant believe that you all here are talking about a ./nlm subdir of 86.3kB while the whole gdb source is more than 14MB !! And that all at times where download bandwidth isnt an issue anymore!
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