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Re: About to remove dwarfout.c
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 05:27:38PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > 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.
It only makes sense if we don't expect there ever to be
a -gdwarf-3 (or -gdwarf-4) to exist next to it; and even
then I'd wait a little while - lets say till the release
of 3.5 or 3.6.
--
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>