Re: Is GDB support for IPv6 useful?

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@sibelius.xs4all.nl>]

> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:00:37 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> Jan Kratochvil posted patches on the gdb-patches mailing list which add
> support for both "target remote" connecting to IPv6 targets, and gdbserver
> listening on IPv6 targets.
> 
> You can already simulate this behavior for GDB, by using "target remote |"
> in combination with a helper like socat.  If support were added to gdbserver
> for using arbitrary file descriptors - not hard, as you can see from Jan's
> latest patch - it could do the same.

I think native IPv6 support would be preferable if there actually
people using it.

> But what I'm really interested in is whether native IPv6 support would be
> useful for GDB.  If it is, we should go ahead and merge it.  If no one or
> almost no one is ever going to want it, then we shouldn't, and I can write
> up some text for the manual about how to use an external program to
> implement it.
> 
> I have never used IPv6, for debugging or anything else, so I don't feel able
> to make a useful decision about this.  I'd like to hear from some people who
> do use it.

Me neither.

Mark