Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]

Joel Brobecker
2014-02-13T11:55:13Z

> Do you mean IRIX host or both IRIX host and target?

I mean both.

> Implementing IPv6 in gdbserver will make IRIX incompatible even as a target.
>
> I am asking as I have seen for example yours:
>
> commit 1324a0d9b562a38f4ce23c8835e1dacbbe3b51b9
> Author: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
> Date: Tue Nov 23 01:06:08 2010 +0000
> support for mips-irix on-stack trampolines
> [...]

Back then, I had access to a machine, and some interest in maintaining
this port. It's been a somewhat fun port, especially in the early days
of DWARF, and also playing with mips, but unfortunately, I don't have
access to an IRIX machine anymore, and even if I did, I'm afraid I might
not have much time to play with it except maybe for really small tasks.

The same goes for other platforms, such as HP/UX. No more hardware,
and very little time. And since I was one of the very few and
occasional maintainers of those ports, I concluded that the ports
were probably, de facto, orphaned.

--
Joel