From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 115863 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2015 21:57:36 -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 115853 invoked by uid 89); 11 Mar 2015 21:57:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:57:35 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t2BLvTxP009498 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:29 -0400 Received: from host1.jankratochvil.net ([10.40.204.20]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t2BLvPJ9006259 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:57:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Simon Marchi Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] Remove HPUX Message-ID: <20150311215725.GA11980@host1.jankratochvil.net> References: <20141016220028.GA25839@host2.jankratochvil.net> <547C794B.6030108@ericsson.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <547C794B.6030108@ericsson.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00324.txt.bz2 On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:20:59 +0100, Simon Marchi wrote: > On 2014-10-16 06:00 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > I did not investigate too much which other parts of GDB could be removed > > along, there may be some dead code now (but it always has been). > > I stumbled upon one of them in elfread.c (elf_symtab_read), a comment > mentions a special case for hpux. The problem is that in these other platforms may have been quietly using the feature and removing it may regress them. In the patch being prepared I follow what the comments say, although I do not find it completely safe. Jan