From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28647 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2006 11:46:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 28638 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Dec 2006 11:46:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (HELO smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl) (194.109.24.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:46:38 +0000 Received: from webmail.xs4all.nl (dovemail8.xs4all.nl [194.109.26.10]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBHBkIOA004594; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:46:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl) Received: from 82.92.89.47 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sibelius) by webmail.xs4all.nl with HTTP; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:46:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <23697.82.92.89.47.1166355987.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200612170123.kBH1NfVF025104@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> References: <200612170123.kBH1NfVF025104@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:46:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Likely obsolete pieces of GDB From: "Mark Kettenis" To: "John David Anglin" Cc: "Daniel Jacobowitz" , gdb@sourceware.org, dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca, brobecker@adacore.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-12/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 > > 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.