From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23842 invoked by alias); 5 May 2004 22:01:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23833 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 22:01:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tisch.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.157) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2004 22:01:39 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BLUSB-0005di-00; Wed, 05 May 2004 18:01:23 -0400 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 260584B104; Wed, 5 May 2004 18:01:32 -0400 (EDT) To: cagney@gnu.org, jkj@sco.com Subject: Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1? Cc: ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, jimb@redhat.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com Message-Id: <20040505220132.260584B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 22:01:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 Kean Johnston writes: > At least 3 I know of: SCO, UnixWare ans Solaris x86. DG-UX may as well, > but I cant swear to its native debugging format. OpenServer and UnixWare: AFAIK, it's still FSF's policy to support SCO's platforms. I disagree with this policy but if dwarf-1 is needed for OpenServer and UnixWare then gdb has to keep supporting dwarf-1. Solaris X86: Mark, can you say anything about this? What debug format does "cc -g" produce on a solaris x86 machine? DG-UX: I looked into this in February 2003. Takis Psarogiannakopoulus developed a native toolchain for this platform based on dwarf-2. Takis said that his port is based on dwarf-2. More importantly, Takis said that the FSF version of gdb has *never* worked on dg-ux (his emphasis) and might as well just be removed. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-02/msg00074.html The FSF sent Takis a copyright assignment. I don't know if he executed it or not, but he balked at getting a disclaimer from his employer. And nobody has done any work to merge Takis's work back into FSF gdb. Since last year, EMC (the owner of Data General) has put all their web pages for dg-ux support behind a login barrier and requires a support contract to read them. So I can't say what has happened with dg-ux lately. As of 2003-02, the most recent version of dg-ux was DG/UX 4.20MU07, released 2001-04. Michael C