From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22913 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2004 00:23:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22899 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2004 00:23:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca) (132.246.100.193) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 21 Nov 2004 00:23:14 -0000 Received: from hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (8.12.9-20030917/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iAL0NDko022573; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:23:13 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dave@localhost) by hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (8.12.9-20030917/8.12.9/Submit) id iAL0NCCQ022572; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:23:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200411210023.iAL0NCCQ022572@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Subject: Re: [patch] Remove uses of deprecated_registers from hppah-nat.c To: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl (Mark Kettenis) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:23:00 -0000 From: "John David Anglin" Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, randolph@tausq.org In-Reply-To: <200411201835.iAKIZvQj001652@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> from "Mark Kettenis" at Nov 20, 2004 01:35:57 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00415.txt.bz2 > About the politics. Everything except GNU/Linux is a second class > citizen in GNU-land. I really hope that given enough support from the > userbase we can give other platforms a place too. I'll stronly oppose > any unreasonable attempt to remove features that such platforms depend > on. What happened to GNU/Hurd ;-) In GCC, I've tried to maintain an even balance in supporting HP-UX and Linux as I know that I came to be an open source supporter by using GNU tools on proprietory systems. > Unfortunately the HP-UX support in GDB has many problems. It'll > require a significant amount of work to keep it alive. I hope you'll > continue to help with that. Unfortunately, although I would like to help more, I'm really stretched to the limit with GCC and the other volunteer projects that I support. > Personally, I think we can increase the likelyhood of continued HP-UX > support by getting rid of some of the badly implemented HP-UX-only > features. That's why I just committed that HP-UX 10.20 change. > Hopefully we can do something like it for HP-UX 11.x. I sincerely > hope you don't view this as if I'm throwing away the stuff that you > spent hours of time on to get it working again. It's really the thousands of hours of time spent on the PA-RISC GCC port that I'm concened about. Gdb is the most important tool in keeping the GCC port alive. HP really messed up gdb with its badly implemented features and then walking away. The old Utah versions of gdb worked much better. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602)