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Re: Avoid explicit use of machine modes (7/n) [NOT APPLIED YET]
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:27:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: Avoid explicit use of machine modes (7/n) [NOT APPLIED YET]
- References: <87y8w7usm5.fsf@codesourcery.com>
>>>>> Zack Weinberg writes:
> dbxout.c uses machine mode numbers to decide which R-numbers to attach
> to complex types. gdb does not use this information in detail; it
> looks to see whether the R-number indicates some kind of complex type,
> and then it gets the rest of what it needs from the size. Comments in
> dbxout.c and include/aout/stabs_gnu.h suggest that gdb is the only
> debugger we care about for complex types. Furthermore, stabs is
> obsolescent. Therefore I propose to rip out all of the code for this
> and just generate R3 (NF_COMPLEX) always. Thoughts?
Stabs may be obsolescent, but it still is used by some targets,
such as AIX and Darwin.
David