From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16715 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2014 15:02:16 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 16700 invoked by uid 89); 13 Oct 2014 15:02:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:02:14 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s9DF26kV027005 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:02:07 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s9DF24Zj012930; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:02:05 -0400 Message-ID: <543BE96C.7020007@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:02:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Joel Brobecker CC: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: VAX Ultrix? (Re: GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64) References: <20140911185249.GA13931@adacore.com> <5439406D.6060107@redhat.com> <20141013133809.GB4805@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 On 10/13/2014 02:57 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote: > >> Wikipedia says that VAX production ceased in 2005. The last VAX-specific >> patch I can see being submitted to gdb-patches is us mentioning support >> for VAX floats in the Ada mode (which we removed in 2010). VAX VMS was >> removed in 2010 from BFD. There seems to be some regular activity around >> VAX on the GCC side, though, but Ultrix itself seems to be no longer be >> supported. > > Oh, I have some VAX/Linux stuff waiting too; although whether it makes > sense to submit or not will depend on what happens to support for that > platform in the Linux kernel and glibc. I've got a port mostly working, > but both the kernel and glibc are rather ancient and glibc can't proceed > without defining a TLS ABI. I have no interest in Ultrix itself though. OK, thanks. TBC, I'm looking at this from the "DEC replaced Ultrix with OSF/1" angle, not really paying attention to VAX vs Alpha. I'm more interested in getting rid of old operating systems than old architectures, in the sense that those could potentially hold back newer tool/compiler requirements. Modern tools running on VAX is fine with me. Thanks, Pedro Alves