Re: [PATCH] gdb, gdbserver: remove WinCE support code

[Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 4/12/21 11:01 AM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2021-04-12 9:57 a.m., Luis Machado wrote:> On 4/10/21 8:10 PM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
>>> The support for WinCE was removed with commit 84b300de3666 ("gdbserver:
>>> remove support for ARM/WinCE").  There is some leftover code for WinCE
>>> support, guarded by the _WIN32_WCE macro, which I didn't know of at the
>>> time.
>>>
>>> I didn't remove the _WIN32_WCE references in the tests, because in
>>> theory we still support the WinCE architecture in GDB (when debugging
>>> remotely).  So someone could run a test with that (although I'd be
>>> really surprised).
>>
>> Is there value in supporting remote-based debugging of WinCE if we're dropping gdbserver support? Should we also drop the GDB and testing parts given this won't likely be exercised anytime soon if there's no maintainer?
> 
> I don't think so.  After doing that cleanup of stale arches in
> GDBserver, I wanted to do the same for GDB, but didn't really finish it.

Understood. I'm not saying you should do the work, but it is good to 
know that it can be done by whoever has some spare cycles to come up 
with the cleanup (myself included).