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Re: [patch] Remove HPUX
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Eager <eager at eagerm dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:32:05 +0000
- Subject: Re: [patch] Remove HPUX
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On 11/19/2014 07:39 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> Folks on LinkedIn were mostly concerned that changes in FSF
> GDB support would affect their use of HP's WDB debugger. I
> assured them that this was not the case.
Thanks. If no actual users care, then there's no reason
for us to care either.
+1 from me for dropping support as well then.
>
> I was in touch with people in HP's debugger group about a week
> ago. They have a version of gdb based on gdb-6.5 and their
> changes have not been pushed back to FSF. They only use GDB
> for GCC compilations, which they no longer support. (They
> only support their aC++ compiler and wdb debugger.) They said
> that they were aware of the proposal to drop HPUX support from
> FSF GDB.
+2 even then.
>
> My contact at HP said that he had reached out to others
> at HP to see if there was interest for keeping HPUX support
> in FSF GDB alive, but hadn't received any positive responses.
>
> As McCoy said "It's dead, Jim."
Thanks,
Pedro Alves