From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: VAX Ultrix? (Re: GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1410131453350.21156@eddie.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141013133809.GB4805@adacore.com>
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.
Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-13 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-11 18:52 GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64 Joel Brobecker
2014-09-11 20:53 ` Joel Sherrill
2014-09-12 0:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-09-12 0:33 ` Andrew Pinski
2014-09-12 1:11 ` Joel Sherrill
2014-09-12 9:53 ` Matthew Fortune
2014-10-11 14:36 ` VAX Ultrix? (Re: GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64) Pedro Alves
2014-10-13 13:38 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-10-13 13:57 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2014-10-13 15:02 ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-13 16:04 ` Mark Kettenis
2014-10-15 13:22 ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-17 13:47 ` GDB is removing VAX Ultrix support Pedro Alves
2014-10-24 17:12 ` Support for VAX Ultrix removed Pedro Alves
2014-10-24 17:11 ` GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64 Pedro Alves
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