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Re: RFA bug fix -- x86-64 stabs and deprecated fp register
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: David Taylor <dtaylor at usendtaylorx2l dot lss dot emc dot com>
- Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:18:54 +0400
- Subject: Re: RFA bug fix -- x86-64 stabs and deprecated fp register
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> For current systems we have earlier this year switched to DWARF, but we
> will need to support STABS for legacy systems for a few years.
Can you say which systems? I am just curious to see what systems
out there still use stabs. Also, do you have an idea of long
you might have to continue supporting stabs (it's ok if you do not
know or do not want to say).
> As far as it being obsolete, I asked about its status in January 2013 on
> the gdb list. My take away from that discussion was that it was not
> deprecated nor obsolete and that it was being maintained; but, that new
> development was focused on DWARF.
I think that's a fair understanding, although I don't know of any
maintainer that still uses DWARF, so maintenance is likely to
remain limited to integrating patch submissions such as yours.
--
Joel