From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31258 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2002 01:53:23 -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 31134 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2002 01:53:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Aug 2002 01:53:22 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2E03C03; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 21:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D5C5B10.8090009@ges.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:53:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020810 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carlos O'Donell Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Jim Blandy , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: HP catchpoint code References: <20020812153334.GA30891@nevyn.them.org> <20020813214211.GA9735@nevyn.them.org> <3D598150.1000106@ges.redhat.com> <20020814140428.GD22374@systemhalted> <20020814141348.GA20524@nevyn.them.org> <20020814161918.GA23968@systemhalted> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00175.txt.bz2 >> >> Absolutely. It's gotten (started?) very crufty, and _no one_ has been >> willing to maintain it. I know ye HPPA/Linux folks have your own port, >> and so far not a soul has been willing to contribute it to GDB - I >> don't know who can, I sure didn't write it, I just include it in the >> Debian packages to make Randolph stop nagging me :) >> >> More to the point, though - if someone steps forward to do some >> long-needed work on PARISC, that can stay, but HP/UX support is what I >> really want to leave (or be updated). >> > > > I can't plead ignorance on the issue since Matthew Wilcox mentioned > that GDB wanted to drop PARISC support... and the main reason I'm on this > list, and others, is to keep a finger on the pulse of PARISC specific > problems across the board from binutils/gcc/glibc/gdb. > > I'll step forward to do PARISC support for GDB. > These may be my famous last words ;) Ok, the first step is ``write after approval''. Per the MAINTAINERS file: ``To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.'' Since the PA risc target isn't maintained, its commit rules are more lax then for maintained targets. enjoy, Andrew