From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6565 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2014 14:21:04 -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 6552 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2014 14:21:04 -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_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: usevmg21.ericsson.net Received: from usevmg21.ericsson.net (HELO usevmg21.ericsson.net) (198.24.6.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:21:02 +0000 Received: from EUSAAHC006.ericsson.se (Unknown_Domain [147.117.188.90]) by usevmg21.ericsson.net (Symantec Mail Security) with SMTP id 3B.16.25146.23D1C745; Mon, 1 Dec 2014 08:48:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from [142.133.110.254] (147.117.188.8) by smtps-am.internal.ericsson.com (147.117.188.90) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:20:59 -0500 Message-ID: <547C794B.6030108@ericsson.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:21:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CC: Subject: Re: [patch] Remove HPUX References: <20141016220028.GA25839@host2.jankratochvil.net> In-Reply-To: <20141016220028.GA25839@host2.jankratochvil.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 On 2014-10-16 06:00 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > Hi, > > IIUC it is a pre-requisite for IPv6 support, some UNICes do not support > getaddrinfo required for IPv6. But coincidentally such UNICes are no longer > really supported by GDB. Therefore it was concluded we can remove all such > UNICes and then we can implement IPv6 easily with getaddrinfo. > > In mail > Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections] > Message-ID: <20140211034157.GG5485@adacore.com> > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-02/msg00333.html > Joel said: > # [...] HP-UX [...] are probably de facto unmaintained, at this point. > > So I chose HP-UX first for this patch. > > > # We should probably send an announcement if we ever implement a change > # we know might be breaking some platforms, though. > > Not sure if anything should be really done for this part. > > I did not test it anyhow, not sure how, it still builds on Linux. > > 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. > I am not sure if somread.c really can be removed or not, I have removed it. > > The same patch is also available as a GIT branch at: > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=archer.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/jankratochvil/nohpux > > 24 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 7384 deletions(-) > > > Thanks, > Jan