Re: [hppa] FYI: confusion in unwind descriptor field meaning

Randolph Chung
2005-11-19T13:14:33Z

> Does anyone still use the HP/UX native aCC support? I'm talking
> about hpacc-abi.c and the C++ bits of hpread.c. I don't think GNU C++
> on HP/UX uses any of this code.

Indeed g++ doesn't use those. jda has been working on improving
dwarf-based debug and EH support for hpux in gcc.

> I currently have access to an HP/UX system, with both the GNU and HP
> tools. I'm willing to go through and fix up the SOM support for the
> GNU tools, but I think doing aCC would be a little more than I could
> handle.

If you could, I think the SOM based solib support in gdb is rather
broken. I think it's not mapping the libraries quite properly. Dave has
seen problems where printing the address of a shlib function shows an
unrelocated address...

Can I interest you in looking into these? :)

i would say if people are interested in HP toolchain, they can use wdb.
The HP toolchain support in gdb is probably not working after all the
code reorg anyway. MEC used to post test results for gdb on hpux using
aCC but I haven't heard from him for a long time.

just my 2 cents :)
randolph