Dwarf2 only works with an ancient GDB. VMS style was useful because it implemented enough to get a trace back.
But as you say it’s dead, so no basis for objection. On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 6:47 AM Jeff Law <jeffreya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 9/10/2021 12:52 AM, Richard Biener via Gcc-patches wrote: > > This changes the default debug format for Alpha/VMS to DWARF2 only, > > skipping emission of VMS debug info which is going do be deprecated > > for GCC 12 alongside the support for STABS. > > > > It looks like other flavors of VMS never used VMS_DEBUG by default > > but only the alpha port did. > > > > I have no good means to test anything here, it might be that we have > > alpha-vms specific testcases that rely on the previous default. > > > > OK for trunk? > > > > Thanks, > > Richard. > > > > 2021-09-10 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> > > > > * config/alpha/vms.h (PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE): Define to > > DWARF2_DEBUG. > It's a dead target, so yea, go for it. Worst case it breaks someone > notices and we know someone still cares about alpha-vms :-) > > Jeff > >
