Re: eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left.

Ulrich Weigand
2014-09-09T21:48:59Z

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> > procfs.c: dbx_link_bpt = deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint (target_gdbarch (), NULL,
> >
> > This is only compiled if SYS_syssgi is defined, which I believe means
> > MIPS IRIX. Do we still care about MIPS IRIX?
> >
> > solib-irix.c: base_breakpoint = deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint (target_gdbarch (),
>
> 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

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 ... ]

Bye,
Ulrich

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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU/Linux compilers and toolchain
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