Re: About to remove dwarfout.c

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 17:23, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> > I plan to remove -gdwarf and -gdwarf+ (both of whch were deprecated in
> > GCC 3.3), remove dwarfout.c, associated macros, etc. from GCC 3.4
> > shortly.
> > 
> > Objections?
> 
> I don't object to the general idea, but what about having -gdwarf
> become a synonym for -gdwarf-2?

I was afraid somebody was going to suggest that.

I don't like that idea because it means that an existing switch (one
explicitly deprecated) now becomes undeprecated and means something
different than it used to mean.  However, this is certainly a
reasonable-people-can-reasonably-disagree kind of thing.

However, rather not discuss that issue at this time.  After I rip out
dwarfout.c, we can decide to add back -gdwarf as a synonym; that will be
easy to do if it is decided that it makes sense.

Thanks,

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