From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24729 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2014 20:53:38 -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 24714 invoked by uid 89); 11 Sep 2014 20:53:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: OARmail.OARCORP.com Received: from oarmail.oarcorp.com (HELO OARmail.OARCORP.com) (67.63.146.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:53:36 +0000 Received: from [100.136.238.129] (172.56.10.125) by OARmail.OARCORP.com (192.168.2.2) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.342.0; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:53:32 -0500 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <20140911185249.GA13931@adacore.com> References: <20140911185249.GA13931@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64 From: Joel Sherrill Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:53:00 -0000 To: Joel Brobecker ,"gdb@sourceware.org" Message-ID: X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 First I am not complaining but just have a couple of clarifying questions. + does this include binutils and/or GCC? + does this have the side-effect of impacting any embedded mips targets? I expect not. Thanks. --joel On September 11, 2014 2:52:49 PM EDT, Joel Brobecker wrote: >Dear all, > >The GDB project is planning on removing support for the following >platforms: > - MIPS IRIX (mips*-sgi-irix5*, mips*-sgi-irix6*) > - Alpha Tru64 (alpha*-*-osf*) > >As of GDB 7.8, our latest release, we hope that GDB will build and >work. >But we currently have no report of anyone who has tried it, so we do >not >know for sure. > >If you are still using a recent GDB on either of these platforms, >and would like to step up to continue maintaining either of them, >please let us know. We have been maintaining them as best we can >up to now, but we have reached a point where this is becoming >too difficult and/or more effort that anyone is willing to invest. > >If you are interested in maintaining either port, please contact >us immediately, even if you are not sure. Our process for removing >a platform is fairly fast by internet standards: If no one steps up, >we will send this notice to gdb-announce a week from now. And then >declare the removal a week after that. > >Thank you,