Re: HP catchpoint code

Carlos O'Donell
2002-08-14T16:21:17Z

>
> 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 ;)

AFAIK the issues revolve around some final FSF paperwork that Alan Modra
needs to complete to get the debian .dpatch's accepted upstream? All of
our modifications to gdb are in the debian package as patches. We do have
a gdb cvs tree, but that is based on Randolph's 5.1 merge. I will get
this up to date as soon as possible.

As for new development, and moving forward with PARISC (HP/UX support?)
that will take my time, research and development. Not to mention more
gdb source digging...

c.