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.).

Hmm, I just noted some lingering calls to [x]mmalloc in the objfile 
reader.  I'll replace them (their reason for being there is gone).

Since GDB works around the lack of mmalloc this wouldn't have been noticed.

Andrew

> 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' :-)