Re: IPv6 support

Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-07-04T17:23:13Z

On Wednesday, July 04 2018, Ruslan Kabatsayev wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 4 July 2018 at 15:43, Ashutosh Pal <Ashutosh.Pal@synopsys.com> wrote:
>> Hi Experts,
>>
>> Could anyone please confirm if gdb today has support for connecting
>> to IPv6 RSP targets? In the code (7.12), I still see references to
>> old API's like gethostbyname(..) etc. and no use of types like
>> sockaddr_in6 etc. Searching over internet, I found the following
>> mail thread talking about a patch for supporting IPv6:
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-02/msg00253.html
>
> Here're the newer threads related to IPv6 support:
> patch v1: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-05/msg00629.html
> patch v2: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-06/msg00384.html .
>
>>
>> Is this patch or any other fixes related to IPv6 included in any latest gdb releases?
>
> AFAICT, previous attempts have not been finished. Maybe the current one will...

Yeah, I intend to submit a v3 today.

Cheers,

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