From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1807 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2004 22:26:42 -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 1793 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2004 22:26:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 15 Oct 2004 22:26:41 -0000 Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl [192.168.0.2]) by walton.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9FMQecv011081 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:26:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.12.6p3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i9FMQeZO001221 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:26:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kettenis@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.12.6p3/8.12.6/Submit) id i9FMQd8J001218; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:26:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:04:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200410152226.i9FMQd8J001218@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: [RFC] HP-UX native support X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00335.txt.bz2 One of the black pages in GDB's history is what is usually referred to as the HP merge. It's what brought us real support for modern HP-UX, and included nifty features such as follow-fork and such. Unfortunately the changes didn't fit in very well with the structure of GDB in those days. We still suffer from the consequences. Since then, the HP-UX specific code has seen very little maintenance, and while I appreciate the efforts of Joel and Randolph to fix things, I think some more radical changes are needed. In my tree I have some changes that implement fresh new inf-ptrace.c based native support for HP-UX 10.20. It does away with all the nifty features mentioned above, and leaves us with something more traditional. However, I think it'll make maintenance much easier, and to be honest, I really doubt whether the nifty features still work. How do people feel about this? Mark