Target deprecation, round three

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:47:43PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> In addition to target deprecation, I would also like to propose the
> removal of support for DWARF version 1.  There are only two target
> patterns that request DWARF 1 but not DWARF 2: mips-sni-sysv4, which
> is already on the deprecation list, and arc-*-*, which I see no
> intrinsic reason why it couldn't migrate to DWARF 2; it is already an
> ELF target.  Tangentially, my impression is that the ARC target itself
> is still actively maintained, but I am not sure.  Please speak up if
> you have a current need for this target.

[This is not a request to keep it.  I beg you not to count it as one.]

There are a number of hardware + closed source software debugger
combinations - I know of one for ARM and one for PowerPC - that only
speak DWARF 1.  I've seen people using these within the past month. 
So, as broken as our DWARF1 output is (very) and as sad as it makes me,
I don't think we can ditch it yet.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer