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(dclarke@blastwave.org@174.118.245.214) by 0 with ESMTPA; 16 Oct 2018 18:40:55 -0000 Subject: Re: Obsoleting Solaris 10 support To: gdb@sourceware.org References: From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: <35e07e9e-95ac-7341-9a84-5e8a77090226@blastwave.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:41:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-10/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 On 10/16/2018 05:42 AM, Rainer Orth wrote: > Yesterday I've announced the obsoletion of Solaris 10 support in GCC 9 > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-10/msg00139.html > > I believe the same reasons cited there hold for GDB as well. Besides, > we had some build failures recently that only occured on Solaris 10, > creating work to support a rapidly dwindling or even vanished user base. > Therefore, I wonder how best to handle this in GDB. > Looking at the gcc test results for the past few years it looks like efforts have fallen off a cliff. Certainly I have lost a lot of interest. I still have reasons to work with Apache and OpenSSL and a few other places but even those reasons are going away. 2018 Results for 8.1.0 (genunix Fri May 11 08:23:40 GMT 2018) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 8.1.0 (genunix intermediate2 Thu May 10 22:32:27 GMT 2018) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 8.1.0 (genunix intermediate Wed May 9 03:28:19 GMT 2018) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 8.1.0 (genunix Fri May 4 09:11:25 GMT 2018) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 8.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.11 Results for 8.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.10 Results for 8.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 8.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 7.3.0 (genunix Mon Apr 16 19:59:50 GMT 2018) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 2017 Results for 7.2.0 (genunix Thu Aug 24 11:51:52 GMT 2017) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 7.2.0 (genunix Tue Aug 22 16:45:21 GMT 2017) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 6.4.0 (genunix Tue Jul 25 02:19:47 GMT 2017) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 6.4.0 (genunix Wed Jul 26 02:41:24 GMT 2017) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 7.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 7.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 7.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.12 2016 Results for 6.1.0 (tgcware64 6.1.0-1) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 6.1.0 (tgcware 6.1.0-1) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.11 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.12 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.12 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 5.4.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.11 Results for 6.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.10 Results for 6.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 6.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.12 Results for 6.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 6.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.11 2015 Results for 5.3.0 (tgcware 5.3.0-1) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 5.3.0 (tgcware64 5.3.0-1) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 5.2.1 20151020 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.11 Results for 5.2.0 (tgcware64 5.2.0-1) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 5.2.0 (tgcware 5.2.0-1) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 4.9.3 (tgcware64 4.9.3-1) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 4.9.3 (tgcware 4.9.3-1) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 Results for 4.9.3 (tgcware64 4.9.3-1) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 Results for 4.9.3 (tgcware 4.9.3-1) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 Results for 4.8.5 (tgcware64 4.8.5-1) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 Results for 4.8.5 (tgcware 4.8.5-1) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 Results for 4.9.3 (tgcware 4.9.3-1) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.9 Results for 4.8.5 (tgcware 4.8.5-1) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.9 Results for 4.9.3 (GCC) testsuite on i486-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.1.1 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 5.1.1 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 5.1.1 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 5.1.1 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.1.1 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.1.1 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.1.1 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 Results for 5.1.0 (GCC) testsuite on i386-pc-solaris2.12 Results for 4.9.2 (genunix Fri Jan 2 11:56:03 GMT 2015) testsuite on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 There was considerable activity in the previous five years and I know that I have been submitting results as far back as 1999 or so. However the last five years clearly point the direction. Dennis Clarke