Re: Obsoleting Solaris 10 support

[Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Hi Dennis,

> On 10/16/2018 12:39 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> this would argue for an obsoletion in the GDB 8.4 timeframe, roughly at
>>> the same time GCC itself does.  Issues I'm facing with Solaris 10 right
>>> now (apart from the S10-only build breakages) are having to deal with
>>> different syscall numbers while working on an xml syscall table for
>>> Solaris and catch syscall support, as well as differences in corefile
>>> contents.  I suspect there will be more as time goes on.
>>
>> Sound good. Feel free to step in and make suggestions if you have
>> new info that makes you think we should stop support earlier.
>>
>
> I can not think of a valid compelling reason to make the effort.  I have
> had no major problems getting gcc bootstrapped on ye old s10 but I use
> dbx from the Sun/Oracle Studio line for debug work.  If at all.

indeed: while gdb works reasonably well on Solaris, I had a couple of
cases (often related to corrupted stacks) where dbx dealt with the issue
way better (or even at all) compared to gdb which could be thrown off-track.

> Given that Oracle has dropped Solaris 10 into a legacy support status
> there isn't any valid reason for extra efforts to get gdb working
> flawlessly.  At least I can not think of any.  Sadly.

I hope to get a few fixes into gdb for the 8.3 release that would
benefit both Solaris 10 and 11, but after that, I'm done with S10.

	Rainer

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