Re: [patch] Remove uses of deprecated_registers from hppah-nat.c

["John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>]

> About the politics.  Everything except GNU/Linux is a second class
> citizen in GNU-land.  I really hope that given enough support from the
> userbase we can give other platforms a place too.  I'll stronly oppose
> any unreasonable attempt to remove features that such platforms depend
> on.

What happened to GNU/Hurd ;-)  In GCC, I've tried to maintain an even
balance in supporting HP-UX and Linux as I know that I came to be
an open source supporter by using GNU tools on proprietory systems.

> Unfortunately the HP-UX support in GDB has many problems.  It'll
> require a significant amount of work to keep it alive.  I hope you'll
> continue to help with that.

Unfortunately, although I would like to help more, I'm really stretched
to the limit with GCC and the other volunteer projects that I support.

> Personally, I think we can increase the likelyhood of continued HP-UX
> support by getting rid of some of the badly implemented HP-UX-only
> features.  That's why I just committed that HP-UX 10.20 change.
> Hopefully we can do something like it for HP-UX 11.x.  I sincerely
> hope you don't view this as if I'm throwing away the stuff that you
> spent hours of time on to get it working again.

It's really the thousands of hours of time spent on the PA-RISC GCC
port that I'm concened about.  Gdb is the most important tool in keeping
the GCC port alive.  HP really messed up gdb with its badly implemented
features and then walking away.  The old Utah versions of gdb worked much
better.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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