Re: errors in GDB reading symbols

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:33:28AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I looked into this yesterday.
> 
> Removing this doesn't shave much time off the build -- 5 seconds on my
> machine.  Still, it would probably be good to do.  While doing this, I
> did discover we have duplicate objects in libgdb.a, oops.
> 
> I think the Free Pascal folks already know about this problem:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg13661.html

Sad to see so much stale information about GDB; at least it has one
defender on that list, though (thanks Jonas).

Forwarding with permission, from Marco van de Voort (CC'd; Marco, this
is an open list, so feel free to reply and it won't bounce):

> >Unfortunately, there's an IDE (Free Pascal?) that uses it.  I don't
> >know of other uses.

> The (libgdb usage) was copied from RHIDE.

> >I'm still in favor of being rid of it; but we should warn them
> >directly.

> Note that one of the main reasons is the lack of some systems not
> supporting multitasking. Not having a linkable version afaik will make
> using GDB in an IDE for such purposes difficult to impossible.

> Typically that means Dos/DJGPP, but there could some embedded uses
> here and there also.

If we don't gain anything from the removal of libgdb.a, DJGPP support
for the Free Pascal IDE is at least some reason to keep it.  Not a
great one, IMO, but better than none...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery