On 4/8/2021 8:06 AM, Simon Marchi via Gcc wrote:
On 2021-04-08 9:11 a.m., David Edelsohn wrote:
AIX continues to use and support STABS, although it is transitioning
to DWARF. If this is intended as a general statement about removal of
STABS support in GCC,
Yes, it is.
Richard.
Richard,
It is inappropriate to unilaterally make this decision without
discussion with all affected ports and maintainers, without warning,
and without deprecation. I request that you rescind this decision.
It is somewhat ironic to act as a dictator when we are having a
discussion about dictatorial behavior in GCC leadership.
I don't really want to start such a debate about GCC politics. If stabs
is not ready to be deleted, that's fine. But it would be good to go
through all targets for which it is the default (like avr), and see if
they are ready to be switched to DWARF. That's a baby step towards
eventually deleting it.
Agreed. I'd bet AIX is the outlier here and that most, if not all,
other ports that may currently be stabs-by-default can switch to
dwarf-by-default with no significant fallout. So we fix everything we
can while we wait for AIX to move forward.
jeff
