Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections

Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-10T17:45:38Z

> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:02:44 +0400
> From: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
> Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz@redhat.com
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:53:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if GDB prefers to count on Gnulib always or to use ifdefs
> > > here and there to treat windows as a special case. As windows provides
> > > getaddrinfo itself this gnulib "bloat" introduced by this patch is not
> > > really needed.
> > >
> > > But there're some old OSes that lack this function altogether
> >
> > Which ones? Does GDB support them?
>
> To cite Gnulib docs:
> ``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''
>
> TBH, I have no idea how to check that, I couldn't find any specific
> versions of the systems Gdb is supposed to support.

Cygwin 1.5, MSVC, and Interix aren't supported, AFAIK, and MinGW is
not relevant. Not sure about the others; hopefully, someone else will
chime in.

Thanks.