RE: GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64

Matthew Fortune
2014-09-12T09:53:34Z

FWIW just last week I commented in a binutils patch about wanting to
get rid of the irix configurations there. Given it is close to a binutils
release I guess we can bring the topic up formally on binutils after 2.25.

Matthew

Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com> writes:
> Thanks for the quick responses. Sounds like the final cruft to remove.
>
> --joel
>
> On September 11, 2014 8:32:54 PM EDT, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> >wrote:
> >>> First I am not complaining but just have a couple of clarifying
> >questions.
> >>>
> >>> + does this include binutils and/or GCC?
> >>
> >> No, this only is about the GDB part of the code.
> >
> >GCC support for IRIX was already removed a few years ago.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Andrew
> >
> >>
> >>> + does this have the side-effect of impacting any embedded mips
> >>> targets? I expect not.
> >>
> >> No. For MIPS, this should only affect native IRIX support.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Joel