Removing GNATS categories

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Tue Mar 28 07:03:00 GMT 2000


  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



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