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From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Obsoleting Solaris 10 support
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10821a81-f740-ca9f-2606-b6ae88988eee@blastwave.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181016163907.GF17534@adacore.com>

On 10/16/2018 12:39 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> this would argue for an obsoletion in the GDB 8.4 timeframe, roughly at
>> the same time GCC itself does.  Issues I'm facing with Solaris 10 right
>> now (apart from the S10-only build breakages) are having to deal with
>> different syscall numbers while working on an xml syscall table for
>> Solaris and catch syscall support, as well as differences in corefile
>> contents.  I suspect there will be more as time goes on.
> 
> Sound good. Feel free to step in and make suggestions if you have
> new info that makes you think we should stop support earlier.
> 

I can not think of a valid compelling reason to make the effort.  I have
had no major problems getting gcc bootstrapped on ye old s10 but I use
dbx from the Sun/Oracle Studio line for debug work.  If at all.

Given that Oracle has dropped Solaris 10 into a legacy support status
there isn't any valid reason for extra efforts to get gdb working
flawlessly.  At least I can not think of any.  Sadly.

Dennis Clarke
ye old UNIX greybeard


  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-16 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-16  9:42 Rainer Orth
2018-10-16 14:20 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-10-16 14:31   ` Rainer Orth
2018-10-16 16:39     ` Joel Brobecker
2018-10-16 18:21       ` Dennis Clarke [this message]
2018-10-17 12:39         ` Rainer Orth
2018-10-17 12:34       ` Rainer Orth
2018-10-16 18:41 ` Dennis Clarke
2018-10-17 12:42   ` Rainer Orth

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