From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16202 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2006 05:00:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 15895 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2006 05:00:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail1.thewrittenword.com (HELO mail1.thewrittenword.com) (67.95.107.114) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:00:30 +0000 Received: by mail1.thewrittenword.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC32029D; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 00:00:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:00:00 -0000 From: Albert Chin To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Is anyone using the HP compilers on PA-RISC with FSF GDB? Message-ID: <20060804050024.GB60709@mail1.thewrittenword.com> Reply-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <4405B9C0.90505@tausq.org> <20060802025530.GA32090@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060802025530.GA32090@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:55:30PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I have a question, though, which I think I've asked before. GCC on > HP/UX uses stabs, so only requires basic SOM support from GDB. That > should be in decent shape still. But the stuff read by hpread.c is > only generated by the HP compilers (cc and aCC). > > - Are these compilers still important for C? > - Are these compilers still important for C++? We use them to build most of the free software we provide for our customers. > I have not heard from any users of the FSF GDB with the HP compilers in > a long time; for HP-specific features, I suspect more people use HP's > WDB fork of GDB. If no one is using the HP support, I would like to > remove it from the next release of GDB. We ship GDB for all platforms except HP-UX, where we ship HP's WDB. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)