From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31320 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2014 17:45:38 -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 31120 invoked by uid 89); 10 Feb 2014 17:45:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout25.012.net.il Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il (HELO mtaout25.012.net.il) (80.179.55.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:45:33 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N0S00700JVQQY00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:44:36 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N0S001YDJYB9560@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:44:36 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:45:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections In-reply-to: <20140210170244.GO2320@home.lan> To: Paul Fertser Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz@redhat.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83vbwmuaj8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140209172855.GA27131@host2.jankratochvil.net> <1392033768-16793-1-git-send-email-fercerpav@gmail.com> <831tzavrhw.fsf@gnu.org> <20140210170244.GO2320@home.lan> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00322.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:02:44 +0400 > From: Paul Fertser > Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz@redhat.com > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:53:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > I'm not sure if GDB prefers to count on Gnulib always or to use ifdefs > > > here and there to treat windows as a special case. As windows provides > > > getaddrinfo itself this gnulib "bloat" introduced by this patch is not > > > really needed. > > > > > > But there're some old OSes that lack this function altogether > > > > Which ones? Does GDB support them? > > To cite Gnulib docs: > ``This function is missing on some platforms: HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5, > OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 7, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS'' > > TBH, I have no idea how to check that, I couldn't find any specific > versions of the systems Gdb is supposed to support. Cygwin 1.5, MSVC, and Interix aren't supported, AFAIK, and MinGW is not relevant. Not sure about the others; hopefully, someone else will chime in. Thanks.