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

Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-10-13T13:57:52Z

On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Wikipedia says that VAX production ceased in 2005. The last VAX-specific
> patch I can see being submitted to gdb-patches is us mentioning support
> for VAX floats in the Ada mode (which we removed in 2010). VAX VMS was
> removed in 2010 from BFD. There seems to be some regular activity around
> VAX on the GCC side, though, but Ultrix itself seems to be no longer be
> supported.

Oh, I have some VAX/Linux stuff waiting too; although whether it makes
sense to submit or not will depend on what happens to support for that
platform in the Linux kernel and glibc. I've got a port mostly working,
but both the kernel and glibc are rather ancient and glibc can't proceed
without defining a TLS ABI. I have no interest in Ultrix itself though.

Maciej