From cfeab26e4d42fb6f1bde429ab53a885a9d106a69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 09:47:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate dbx mode
GDB has a dbx emulation mode that adds a few aliases and helper
commands. This mode is barely documented and is very superficial
besides. I suspect it is rarely used, and I would like to propose
deprecating it for GDB 12, and then removing it in GDB 13.
---
gdb/NEWS | 2 ++
gdb/main.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 8fce31c41f1..ee9eaad63a0 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
*** Changes since GDB 11
+* DBX mode is deprecated, and will be removed in GDB 13
+
* Improved C++ template support
GDB now treats functions/types involving C++ templates like it does function
diff --git a/gdb/main.c b/gdb/main.c
index 8f944d86545..73fdff25018 100644
--- a/gdb/main.c
+++ b/gdb/main.c
@@ -1028,6 +1028,9 @@ captured_main_1 (struct captured_main_args *context)
}
}
+ if (dbx_commands)
+ warning (_("--dbx mode is deprecated and will be removed"));
+
save_original_signals_state (quiet);
/* Try to set up an alternate signal stack for SIGSEGV handlers. */