From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4230 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2006 12:50:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 4222 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2006 12:50:37 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:50:34 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1G8z8K-0006yu-3d for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:50:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:50:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Is anyone using the HP compilers on PA-RISC with FSF GDB? Message-ID: <20060804125031.GA26799@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <4405B9C0.90505@tausq.org> <20060802025530.GA32090@nevyn.them.org> <20060804050024.GB60709@mail1.thewrittenword.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060804050024.GB60709@mail1.thewrittenword.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 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/msg00023.txt.bz2 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? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery