VAX Ultrix? (Re: GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64)

Pedro Alves
2014-10-11T14:36:38Z

On 09/11/2014 07:52 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The GDB project is planning on removing support for the following
> platforms:
...
> - Alpha Tru64 (alpha*-*-osf*)

Going over the supported hosts in configure.host, I noticed we still
"support" VAX Ultrix / 4.2BSD:

vax-*-bsd*) gdb_host=vax ;;
vax-*-ultrix*) gdb_host=vax ;;

Does it make sense to keep support for old Ultrix given we're
dropping OSF/1 / Tru64?

Below's the table I was building, listing the full set of
supported hosts, according to configure.host, mapping OS to triplet.

| 4.2BSD | vax-*-bsd* |
| AIX | powerpc-*-aix* |
| AIX | powerpc64-*-aix* |
| AIX | rs6000-*-* |
| Cygwin | i[34567]86-*-cygwin* |
| Cygwin | x86_64-*-cygwin* |
| DJGPP/go32 | i[34567]86-*-go32* |
| DJGPP/go32 | i[34567]86-*-msdosdjgpp* |
| Darwin / Mac OS X | *-*-darwin* |
| FreeBSD | alpha*-*-freebsd* |
| FreeBSD | i[34567]86-*-freebsd* |
| FreeBSD | powerpc*-*-freebsd* |
| FreeBSD | sparc64-*-freebsd* |
| FreeBSD | x86_64-*-freebsd* |
| GNU/Hurd | i[34567]86-*-gnu* |
| GNU/Linux | aarch64*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | alpha*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | arm*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | hppa*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | i[34567]86-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | ia64-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | m32r*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | m68*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | mips*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | powerpc*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | powerpc64*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | s390*-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | sparc-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | sparc64-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | tilegx-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | x86_64-*-linux* |
| GNU/Linux | xtensa*-*-linux* |
| GNU/kFreeBSD | alpha*-*-kfreebsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kFreeBSD | i[34567]86-*-kfreebsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kFreeBSD | sparc64-*-kfreebsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kFreeBSD | x86_64-*-kfreebsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | alpha*-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | arm*-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | i[34567]86-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | m68*-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | mips*-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | powerpc-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | sh*-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | sparc-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | sparc64-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | vax-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| GNU/kNetBSD | x86_64-*-knetbsd*-gnu |
| HP-UX | hppa*-*-hpux* |
| HP-UX | ia64-*-hpux* |
| MinGW / MinGW-w64 | i[34567]86-*-mingw32* |
| MinGW / MinGW-w64 | x86_64-*-mingw* |
| NetBSD | alpha*-*-netbsd* |
| NetBSD | arm*-*-netbsdelf* |
| NetBSD | hppa*-*-netbsd* |
| NetBSD | i[34567]86-*-netbsdelf* |
| NetBSD | m68*-*-netbsdelf* |
| NetBSD | mips*-*-netbsd* |
| NetBSD | powerpc-*-netbsd* |
| NetBSD | sh*-*-netbsdelf* |
| NetBSD | sparc-*-netbsdelf* |
| NetBSD | sparc64-*-netbsd* |
| NetBSD | vax-*-netbsdelf* |
| NetBSD | x86_64-*-netbsd* |
| OpenBSD | alpha*-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | arm*-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | hppa*-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | i[34567]86-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | m68*-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | m88*-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | mips64*-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | powerpc-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | sh*-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | sparc-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | sparc64-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | vax-*-openbsd* |
| OpenBSD | x86_64-*-openbsd* |
| QNX/NTO | i[3456]86-*-nto* |
| Solaris | i[34567]86-*-solaris* |
| Solaris | i[34567]86-*-solaris2.1[0-9]* |
| Solaris | sparc-*-solaris2* |
| Solaris | sparc64-*-solaris2* |
| Solaris | sparcv9-*-solaris2* |
| Solaris | x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]* |
| Ultrix | vax-*-ultrix* |

Thanks,
Pedro Alves