From: Philippe Waroquiers Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:08:42 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Remove anouncement of helgrind dead in coregrind/m_debuginfo/README.txt X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_11_0~975 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e17dca21a1269d95a1c928fac05dafe8bec9868a;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git Remove anouncement of helgrind dead in coregrind/m_debuginfo/README.txt as helgrind died many years ago, but resuscitate since then. git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14557 --- diff --git a/coregrind/m_debuginfo/README.txt b/coregrind/m_debuginfo/README.txt index 34b957999a..f231adeb13 100644 --- a/coregrind/m_debuginfo/README.txt +++ b/coregrind/m_debuginfo/README.txt @@ -37,16 +37,9 @@ Rationale for (1) and (2) are obvious. Originally there was also goal (3) Simplify the stabs reader. But stabs support was broken since 3.9.0 and completely removed in 3.10.0. -The worst thing is that it is the stabs type reader that is crashing, -not the stabs line-number reader, but the type info is only used by -Helgrind, which is looking pretty dead at the moment. Old versions -of the stabs type reader can be found in the subversion repository +The worst thing is that it is the stabs type reader that was crashing, +not the stabs line-number reader. +Old versions of the stabs type reader can be found in the subversion repository as m_debuginfo/UNUSED_STABS.txt, the stabs line-number reader was in m_debuginfo/readstabs.c. The old version of this file explained more about the setup. - -If Helgrind ever does come back to life we will need to reinstate the -type storage/reader stuff but with DWARF as its primary target. -Placing the existing stabs type-reader in hibernation improves -stability whilst retaining the development effort/expertise that went -into it for possible future reinstatement.