From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1685 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2002 00:08:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1652 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2002 00:08:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2002 00:08:36 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54F83D1A for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:08:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CBF600D.8090205@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:08:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Multi-arch only GDB 6.0 .... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00319.txt.bz2 So, The GDB 5.0 version bump came about mainly because: o 5.0 requires an ISO C compiler If someone wants to build GDB using a K&R compiler, they could use the older 4.x series or a ISO->K&R converter. (It also was part of moving GDB to a public repository but that is secondary). I think it is time to think about a GDB version bump. This time the reason being (credit to Martin Hunt): o 6.0 only supports multi-arch targets If someone wants to use GDB on an older more obscure target then they can grab an old 5.x release. A tentative schedule (based on this 4 month release cycle) would be: jul-aug: 5.3 mark all as obsolete nov-dec: 6.0 have removed them (YA!) Anyway, I'm going to mention all these going to be obsoleted targets in 5.2's NEWS file. Thoughts? Andrew