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

Joel Brobecker
2014-02-11T03:42:02Z

> > > ``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. Same for Solaris 7 which
is ancient ancient ancient, and no longer supported by its vendor.

We should probably send an announcement if we ever implement a change
we know might be breaking some platforms, though.

--
Joel