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Re: Get rid of underscore.c
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Kai Henningsen <kai at qualify dot domain dot khms dot westfalen dot de>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:38:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Get rid of underscore.c
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>
> > > I think of c++filt like addr2line and the other binutils as small
> > > utilities that give access to a mechanism that would otherwize only be
> > > available by running up GDB (outch). I don't think someone should be
> > > required to download/build GCC to get access to that utility.
> >
> > That sounds as if *all* those utilities - not only c++filt - really
> > should be in a separate directory (maybe "debugutils"), accessible to all
> > the usual suspects (gcc, binutils, gdb). Together with any library parts.
>
> I disagree; that's an unnecessary distinction, we have binutils.
Um, sorry, ignore that, I misread. Or replace "binutils" with
"libiberty" in that sentence. :-)
brgds, H-P