From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26272 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2014 12:29:55 -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 26243 invoked by uid 89); 10 Sep 2014 12:29:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:29:52 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567FE116591; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id y131fWJ0khNM; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B121161C4; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 61E6A477FF; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:29:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Ulrich Weigand Cc: Pedro Alves , GDB Patches Subject: Re: eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left. Message-ID: <20140910122952.GM28404@adacore.com> References: <20140908192432.GE28404@adacore.com> <201409092148.s89LmmOa012429@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201409092148.s89LmmOa012429@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00296.txt.bz2 > > 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. -- Joel