Re: eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left.

Joel Brobecker
2014-09-10T12:29:55Z

> > I would be surprised if anyone still cared about IRIX anymore.
> > I enjoyed working on that system, but I no longer have access
> > to it, so can't support it anymore.
>
> I see that IRIX seems to be in "Retired Mode" as of 12/31/2013:
> http://www.sgi.com/tech/irix/?_mips_support.html

And I saw yesterday on the binutils mailing-list that IRIX support
was removed from GCC already. I think these are all pretty strong
indicators.

> Do we have a current process to formally obsolete/remove support
> for old systems?
>
> [ I guess another candidate to remove might be Alpha OSF/1 ... ]

Here is what I found:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Obsoleting-code

I agree we can obsolete Alpha OSF/1 as well.

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Joel