Re: Patch to fix PR9861

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>]

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

>  > I would expect similar behavior from GDB (except that in GDB, the
>  > lack of demangling would really complicate things more than the
>  > same lack in binutils).  So, my opinion is that GDB is the main
>  > problem here, since this patch effectively makes Java debugging
>  > very difficult with an unpatched GDB.
> 
> It does.  However, it might be possible to persuade people to ship
> updated bnutils on free operating systems.  Unfree systems are going
> to be much more problematic, though.

How much do we care?  Presumably we are talking about people who are
downloading their own gcc and building it themselves.  Otherwise,
keeping gcc and gdb in synch is the responsibility of the distributor.
People who download their own gcc can always download their own gdb.

Ian