Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

Tom Tromey
2013-01-03T17:02:38Z

>>>>> "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