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Re: [rfa:symtab] Delete stabs live range splitting support
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:25:19 -0500
- Subject: Re: [rfa:symtab] Delete stabs live range splitting support
- References: <3FA7F2CA.8070403@redhat.com><1031104201430.ZM22436@localhost.localdomain>
Kevin Buettner writes:
> On Nov 4, 1:41pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > GCC never officially supported it, and its bloating each symbol by ~20%.
> >
> > Tested on PPC NetBSD which is still using stabs.
>
> Does anyone know which ports this code originally benefited? Does any
> existing port still use it? (A brief inspection of the ChangeLog files
> hasn't turned up anything useful.)
>
> Kevin
groundhog day?? (the movie) Somebody pinch me.
See the thread at:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-06/msg00189.html which refers to
another thread, which refers to another thread, which refers to
another thread......
Yes kill it! Now!
elena