Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm?

Andrew Cagney
2003-05-05T17:37:02Z

> Andrew Cagney writes:
> > Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm?
> > .
> > .
>
> deprecate Dwarf1
>
> Not yet for mdebug, maybe mention something about it being queued for
> deprecation in the NEWS/TODO file for the next release?

If True64 uses mdebug, I might have access to a machine. Damd!

> nlm... you mean nlmread.c or nlm/* ?

`yes' (I was actually thinking of nlmread.c, but hey why not nlm/* as
well ...).

> google threw up a few things:
> http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/fpcnw/gdbnw.html (seems active, uses 5.3).
> http://www.herdsoft.com/ti/netware/cross/4_Debugging.html
> There is a gdb wrapper program now that translated netware remote
> protocol into gdb remote protocol and vice versa. So they are not
> using NLM gdbserver anymore because that supports older versins of
> netware only.

Ok, so nlm/ is a candidate (but it isn't hurting anyone, and the
alternative is written in FreePascal :-). The reader, though, appears
to be stuck-in-the-mud (like DWARF).

Andrew