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Re: Forgot to note



> It's arguably a *lot* simpler to change those platforms to dwarf2,
> then to support new-abi/stabs *and* old-abi/stabs at the same time.

OK, I'll let you change DJGPP's built-in crash analyzer program, which
only understands stabs, and the mini-debuggers (edebug32, fsdb) and
IDE (rhide), which also only understand stabs.  No, they don't use
BFD.  No, gdb isn't an option to replace those.  Oh, and the different
parts of DJGPP are released asynchronously, so you'll have to fix
those long before you remove support in gcc, so we have a chance to
run through a release cycle (we release every few years) and get these
updates to users before the new gcc comes out.

Not that I object to moving djgpp to dwarf2 (people hate stabs/C++
debugging) but there's a lot of other things that have to change in
conjunction with changing the compiler.

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