Re: Removing leftover traces of mmalloc?

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

> With the removal of mmalloc support from gdb, nothing in src or gcc is
> actually using mmalloc.  Furthermore, support appears to have been removed
> prior to the branching of GDB 6.1.
> 
> Would it be appropriate to delete the mmalloc directory and all the trailing
> references thereto?  If not, would it at any rate be appropriate to stop
> shipping it with GDB and delete the various trailing references?

I think it is fine to break the the GDB <-> mmalloc connection (by 
zapping it from config et.al.).

As for removing it (cvs rm -f), perhaphs we can avoid it (although I 
don't care).

GDB has a growing list of top-level src directories that it doesn't need 
to be included in a distro (src/mmalloc/ is one).  I think its time to 
prune the `gdb' module (which, I know, is not a very backward compatible 
thing to do).

Andrew

PS: But `what-if' GDB needs to replace obstacks with something more like 
mmalloc (ah, the irony)? We can then revive it - here we need to deal 
with `what-is' :-)