Re: [RFA, PATCH] Deprecate stabs if dwarf2 support available.

2017-12-04 Thread Jim Wilson
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > Note that "deprecation" doesn't match up with giving an error when using. > We should warn (or maybe just document deprecation) instead. OK. I can warn instead. That makes a lot of things simpler for gcc-8. Nothing will be broken by the c

Re: [RFA, PATCH] Deprecate stabs if dwarf2 support available.

2017-12-04 Thread Richard Biener
On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Jim Wilson wrote: > This is based on an idea from Richard Biener that was mentioned here > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-11/msg02376.html > > If we are interested in doing this, it would be accompanied by documentation > changes to state that stabs is

[RFA, PATCH] Deprecate stabs if dwarf2 support available.

2017-12-02 Thread Jim Wilson
This is based on an idea from Richard Biener that was mentioned here https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-11/msg02376.html If we are interested in doing this, it would be accompanied by documentation changes to state that stabs is now deprecated in favor of dwarf2, release notes to announce