Re: Likely obsolete pieces of GDB

Mark Kettenis
2006-12-17T11:46:44Z

> > hppa*-*-hiux*
>
> Definitely obsolete.

However, there is no real benefit in dropping this, since the configuration
is identical to hppa*-*-hpux*.

> > vax-*-*
> >
> > (But not NetBSD or OpenBSD)
>
> Ultrix still might work but I doubt anybody other than myself still
> has such a machine running. There still some interest in linux.

I lost my SIMH Ultrix image to a disk crash a while ago. However, I'm
somewhat attached to vax-nat.c, since it is the best example of the
way the traditional UNIX ptrace() worked.

>
> > osf-share
> >
> > Something from this directory is used to build hpux-thread.o.
> > The rest of it is unused. hpux-thread.o is only enabled for
> > CMA threads, and PROBLEMS says (build/1411) that this hasn't
> > built at least since GDB 6.5. HP/UX has deprecated CMA threads
> > as of 11i.
> >
> > Is support for CMA threads still useful? Note that I'm talking
> > just about hpux-thread.o, not about support for HP/UX 10.20. The
> > PR is still open and still listed in PROBLEMS, but it looks like
> > Dave Anglin fixed it on 2004-11-22, so maybe it is. Or maybe
> > support for that platform is useful but not support for OSF
> > threads.
>
> I think CMA threads is still useful for HP-UX 10. GCC 4.3 still builds
> on this target with DCE/CMA thread support. I will continue to support
> HP-UX 10 in GCC at least for HP-UX 10. This generation of HP machines
> have proved very reliable and many are still running.
>
> I have built 6.5 on HP-UX 10.20. I will report back on the current
> status of the cvs source.

The build problems on HP-UX 10.20 seem to depend on which OS patches are
installed.