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

Jan Kratochvil
2014-02-13T11:36:01Z

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:41:57 +0100, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > > ``This function is missing on some platforms: HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5,
> > > > OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 7, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS''
> [...]
> > As discussed off-list with Tom recently changing subject and getaddrinfo
> > should be available even without gnulib. (The patch code itself still needs
> > a review.) If some host does not have getaddrinfo its maintainer should say
> > so.
>
> In addition to Eli's list of unsupported targets, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF are
> probably de facto unmaintained, at this point.

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

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
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Jan