From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6462 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2014 09:32:15 -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 6452 invoked by uid 89); 21 Nov 2014 09:32:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 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; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:32:14 +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 sAL9W8N1015719 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:32:08 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sAL9W5VF024113; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:32:06 -0500 Message-ID: <546F0695.1080805@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:32:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Eager , Jan Kratochvil CC: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] Remove HPUX References: <20141016220028.GA25839@host2.jankratochvil.net> <544060F6.2070309@eagerm.com> <20141017132613.GH25846@adacore.com> <54414F78.5060905@eagerm.com> <20141119185431.GA2360@host2.jankratochvil.net> <546CF204.2030803@eagerm.com> In-Reply-To: <546CF204.2030803@eagerm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00503.txt.bz2 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