From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27923 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2013 20:53:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 27904 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jan 2013 20:53:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vc0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f181.google.com) (209.85.220.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:53:17 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f181.google.com with SMTP id gb30so15552755vcb.26 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:53:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.29.175 with SMTP id l15mr65400998vdh.2.1357246396406; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:53:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.23.197 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:53:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87hamy42ua.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <12972.1357230104__33958.3243280233$1357230256$gmane$org@usendtaylorx2l> <87hamy42ua.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb From: David Edelsohn To: Tom Tromey , David Taylor Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: 2013-01/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "David" == David Taylor 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. AIX still uses STABS. GCC produces it and GDB consumes it. Recent releases of AIX now support DWARF as well, but GCC and GDB have not been converted to use it on AIX. - David