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Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- To: Günter Knauf <eflash at gmx dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 19:42:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: Deprecate dwarf and mdebug support, delete nlm?
- References: <E19Duaa-0005kw-00@monty-python.gnu.org>
Just FYI, it's dead code elimination, and not the desire to save a few
extra bytes, that is the motivating force behind this discussion.
GDB is always looking to remove code that:
- is not used
- is out-of-date
Out-of-date code (relying on almost defunct interfaces) is always a problem.
Andrew
Ok, so nlm/ is a candidate (but it isn't hurting anyone, and
I cant believe that you all here are talking about a ./nlm subdir of 86.3kB while the whole gdb source is more than 14MB !! And that all at times where download bandwidth isnt an issue anymore!