From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3485 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2009 14:41:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 3475 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2009 14:41:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:41:22 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EE510709; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:41:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (209.195.188.212.nauticom.net [209.195.188.212]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8F510624; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:41:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MRoch-0000Q8-VO; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:41:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller Subject: Re: Is bitstring support still useful? Message-ID: <20090717144119.GA1298@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller References: <20090717143315.GA29728@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090717143315.GA29728@caradoc.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg00116.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:33:15AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > For now, I'm going to remove support in my local tree. I'd better not... I just realized that I have a potential use for this, in displaying packed bit arrays found in some device peripheral registers. I'd still like to know whether the existing support is used by any language, though. If not, we can clean it up aggressively and remove the stabs reader support for bitstrings. I suspect that it is mostly copied and pasted from the removed Chill support. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery