Re: Is anyone using the HP compilers on PA-RISC with FSF GDB?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:00:24AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> 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.

May I make sure I follow this correctly - on HP-UX, you use the aCC
compilers, but do not use GDB?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery