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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
Cc: GDB Development <gdb@sourceware.org>,        John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Subject: Re: proposed symbol format deprecations
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:56:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4C5C1CE6-64E0-4864-AB22-F5AF52E9E707@adacore.com> (Tristan	Gingold's message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:37:33 +0100")
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CCing John.

John, the context here is this:

Tom> I've been working on some changes that touch most of the symbol readers,
Tom> and I notice that a couple of them are barely active -- somread.c and
Tom> mdebugread.c.
Tom> 
Tom> somread.c is used to read the HP-UX SOM format:
Tom> 
Tom> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Object_Model_%28file_format%29
Tom> 
Tom> It is only used on 32-bit PA-RISC systems.  somread.c can't even be
Tom> built on other machines as it requires the HP-UX <syms.h>.

Tristan> You should talk with the HP/PA GCC maintainer, as AFAIK only
Tristan> gdb is able to debug gcc-generated binaries.

John, is 32-bit HP/PA using SOM objects a live target?

Tom