Re: [patch] Remove HPUX

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 11/19/2014 07:39 PM, Michael Eager wrote:

> Folks on LinkedIn were mostly concerned that changes in FSF
> GDB support would affect their use of HP's WDB debugger.  I
> assured them that this was not the case.

Thanks.  If no actual users care, then there's no reason
for us to care either.

+1 from me for dropping support as well then.

> 
> I was in touch with people in HP's debugger group about a week
> ago.  They have a version of gdb based on gdb-6.5 and their
> changes have not been pushed back to FSF.  They only use GDB
> for GCC compilations, which they no longer support.  (They
> only support their aC++ compiler and wdb debugger.)  They said
> that they were aware of the proposal to drop HPUX support from
> FSF GDB.

+2 even then.

> 
> My contact at HP said that he had reached out to others
> at HP to see if there was interest for keeping HPUX support
> in FSF GDB alive, but hadn't received any positive responses.
> 
> As McCoy said "It's dead, Jim."

Thanks,
Pedro Alves