From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27143 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2003 23:36:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27132 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 23:36:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 23:36:22 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9283EC3; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:36:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E1CB5EC.2090605@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:36:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elena Zannoni Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Cfront support --> obsolete it References: <15900.38091.155982.614095@localhost.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 > I have been looking at obsoleting the cfront support that was added in > 1996 to gdb. > > The code spans the following files: > > buildsym.c > dbxread.c > gdbtypes.c > mdebugread.c > stabsread.c > xcoffread.c > > stabsread.h > > I am preparing a patch to obsolete the code. > It will be pulled after the next version of gdb goes out, as usual. > > Does this impact anybody? I woudln't think so, since part of that > code, I discovered, was already ifdef'ed out... When you say `already ifdef'ed out...', how ifdef'd out? Was it disabled to the point where it couldn't work? If it was (and there has been an intervening GDB release) then I think the code can simply go. Andrew