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Re: [PATCH] Fix hot/cold partitioning with -gstabs{,+} (PR debug/81307)
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:49:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix hot/cold partitioning with -gstabs{,+} (PR debug/81307)
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:21:36AM +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
> > No objection if you want to go ahead with your patch, you've already
> > done the work, but fixing bugs in stabs support, ewwww.
>
> Would have been such a nice excuse to drop STABS support ;)
:)
> Anyway, the patch looks sensible. Eventually out documentation
> should more prominently mention that STABS is on the way out and
> using DWARF will result in a much better debugging experience.
>
> Let's formally deprecate any non-DWARF debugging format support
> in GCC 8 changes.html?
I'm not against deprecating them.
Jakub