From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24775 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2004 21:56:43 -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 24765 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2004 21:56:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 16 Oct 2004 21:56:42 -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 i9GLudZh006240; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:56:39 +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 i9GLudZO005986; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:56:39 +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 i9GLucWf005983; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:32:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200410162156.i9GLucWf005983@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <41713868.nailIAJ11B157@mindspring.com> (message from Michael Chastain on Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:04:08 -0400) Subject: Re: [RFC] HP-UX native support References: <200410152226.i9FMQd8J001218@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <41713868.nailIAJ11B157@mindspring.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00343.txt.bz2 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:04:08 -0400 From: Michael Chastain Some scraps of thought: In general, I'm okay with dropping support for follow-fork and other hpux-only features. It's not unimaginable that I'll re-implement some of these features in a more general way. But I shouldn't make any promises about that. Most of the PR's for hp-ux are about build problems, rather than advanced features. So if building gdb gets better or stays the same, that's okay. My main motiviation for this is to scrap a lot of ugly native-dependent code. This simplification means that building GDB can only get better. hpux 10.20 is obsolete and HP no longer supports it. However, many people still use it. Yup. At JIVE (www.jive.nl), we're still using 10.20 for "production". Currently I'm working on our Correlator Control Software that runs on the machine. gdb has to work on hpux 11.00 and hpux 11.11 as well. I can take care of testing those. My current patches don't touch the code for 11.xx at all. So there's no real need to test those. However, I'll probably attack 11.xx after I'm finished with 10.20. Mark