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Re: [RFA/dwarf] Eliminate dwarf2_tmp_obstack
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com,jimb at redhat dot com,ezannoni at redhat dot com
- Date: 19 Apr 2004 08:53:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA/dwarf] Eliminate dwarf2_tmp_obstack
- References: <20040419031744.GA22586@nevyn.them.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:17:44 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> dwarf2_tmp_obstack serves as a general purpose dumping ground. After my
> previous patches, there are only two things left on it: the linked list we
> use to fudge GCC 2.95 line number tables (some day soon I think this hack
> should go away; it was primarily for the benefit of the testsuite, and was
> fixed at least as of GCC 3.1)
FWIW, I don't think it's time to dump support for GCC 2.95: it is
still in wide use as the system compiler on many GNU platforms.
That doesn't mean I'm opposed to the proposed patch, though.