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Re: Removing GNATS categories
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Removing GNATS categories
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:54:49 -0700
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200003280942.LAA00686@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>you write:
> The current GCC GNATS installation has a number of categories that
> haven't been used so far, despite the 145 reports that we already
> have. I propose to remove them, before anybody uses them. The most
> useless ones are
>
> gc
> host
> profiling
Well, I can see possibly needing these long term, but I've got no objection
to removing them until we actually need them.
> I'd also like to ban the lib* categories, on the basis that they could
> go with their front-ends
>
> libf2c
> libgcc
> libobjc
> libobjc
> libstdc++
Actually, I would just remove libgcc. While the runtime libraries are
associated with a front-end, they really are distinct code hunks from
the compiler itself.
jeff