From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17569 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2014 21:48:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 17556 invoked by uid 89); 9 Sep 2014 21:48:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: e06smtp16.uk.ibm.com Received: from e06smtp16.uk.ibm.com (HELO e06smtp16.uk.ibm.com) (195.75.94.112) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:48:57 +0000 Received: from /spool/local by e06smtp16.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:48:53 +0100 Received: from d06dlp01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (9.149.20.13) by e06smtp16.uk.ibm.com (192.168.101.146) with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:48:51 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay11.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.196]) by d06dlp01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC4F17D8024 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:50:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.228]) by b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s89Lmo9l48889870 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:48:50 GMT Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s89Lmnh6012492 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:48:50 -0600 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVin) with SMTP id s89LmmOa012429; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:48:48 -0600 Message-Id: <201409092148.s89LmmOa012429@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:48:48 +0200 Subject: Re: eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left. To: brobecker@adacore.com (Joel Brobecker) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:48:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" Cc: palves@redhat.com (Pedro Alves), gdb-patches@sourceware.org (GDB Patches) In-Reply-To: <20140908192432.GE28404@adacore.com> from "Joel Brobecker" at Sep 08, 2014 12:24:32 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14090921-3548-0000-0000-00000156A909 X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00251.txt.bz2 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 -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU/Linux compilers and toolchain Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com