From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hamy42ua.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12972.1357230104__33958.3243280233$1357230256$gmane$org@usendtaylorx2l> (David Taylor's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:21:44 -0500")
>>>>> "David" == David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com> writes:
David> It appears that STABS is largely in maintenance mode. Are there any
David> plans to deprecate STABS support? If STABS enhancements were made and
David> posted would they be frowned upon? Or would they be reviewed for
David> possible inclusion in a future release?
In gdb things are rarely pre-emptively deprecated like this.
If someone wants to maintain the stabs code, then it will stay alive.
The most important thing is having a reasonably responsive maintainer --
it is the un-maintained code that tends to slowly rot and then
eventually be deleted.
Tom
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[not found] <12972.1357230104__33958.3243280233$1357230256$gmane$org@usendtaylorx2l>
2013-01-03 17:02 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-01-03 20:53 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-03 21:53 ` Jonas Maebe
2013-01-03 22:02 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-04 4:12 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-01-04 20:20 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-05 0:11 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-05 7:53 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-01-05 13:28 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-05 14:52 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-01-06 0:26 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-06 7:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-01-08 8:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-01-08 14:38 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-08 14:46 ` Arnaud Charlet
2013-01-08 14:49 ` David Edelsohn
2013-01-08 14:58 ` Arnaud Charlet
2013-01-03 16:22 David Taylor
2013-01-03 16:42 ` Richard Biener
2013-01-03 16:53 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-01-03 16:56 ` nick clifton
2013-01-04 3:31 ` Doug Evans
2013-01-11 14:53 ` David Taylor
2013-01-11 17:41 ` Doug Evans
2013-01-12 1:55 ` Cary Coutant
2013-01-12 2:17 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2013-01-14 16:06 ` Doug Evans
2013-01-14 19:45 ` Cary Coutant
2013-01-14 16:12 ` Doug Evans
2013-01-14 19:49 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-01-12 13:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-14 18:57 ` David Taylor
2013-01-14 22:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-14 23:41 ` Eric Botcazou
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