From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25490 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2009 14:46:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 25478 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2009 14:46:45 -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; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:46:38 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF75910ACE; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:46:35 +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 A1349108C6; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:46:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYLHe-00088W-Fy; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:46:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:46:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: errors in GDB reading symbols Message-ID: <20090804144634.GA30893@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Tromey , gdb@sourceware.org References: <97234C41-9CA5-4A2C-89BA-6B54256D8B81@gmail.com> <20090803170138.GA32482@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 2009-08/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 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