From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: VAX Ultrix? (Re: GDB dropping support for mips-irix and alpha-tru64)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141013133809.GB4805@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5439406D.6060107@redhat.com>
> Going over the supported hosts in configure.host, I noticed we still
> "support" VAX Ultrix / 4.2BSD:
>
> vax-*-bsd*) gdb_host=vax ;;
> vax-*-ultrix*) gdb_host=vax ;;
>
> Does it make sense to keep support for old Ultrix given we're
> dropping OSF/1 / Tru64?
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.
So this seems to indicate that we will be able to remove support
for Ultrix.
> Below's the table I was building, listing the full set of
> supported hosts, according to configure.host, mapping OS to triplet.
> | HP-UX | hppa*-*-hpux* |
> | HP-UX | ia64-*-hpux* |
I suspect that HP-UX will no longer find any takers. AdaCore had to
step-up many many years go to keep those alive. The situation is
different today, and we are stepping down.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-13 13:38 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 [this message]
2014-10-13 13:57 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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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