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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:57:00 -0000
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)
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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