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Re: Trouble with gdb 6.8 on Irix
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Eric Botcazou <botcazou at adacore dot com>, Olivier Hainque <hainque at adacore dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:26:27 -0700
- Subject: Re: Trouble with gdb 6.8 on Irix
- References: <1215436260.2515.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080707165108.GF704@adacore.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807071713210.19214@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
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> > I think that GDB on mips-irix has been in dire need of attention.
> > It's something I have on my list and I hope to get to it by the end
> > of the year, but my hopes often get overridden by more urgent issues...
> > The release that AdaCore uses in its product is GDB 5.3 (very old now,
> > I know).
>
> If you care about GDB on mips-irix, I strongly advise caring about GCC as
> well, or finding someone to care about it. Right now, it is on the list
> of targets to be deprecated in GCC 4.4 because we wish to remove fixproto
> and it is one of the few targets still using fixproto (so someone would
> need to stop it from using fixproto, and make fixincludes do any necessary
> fixes fixproto does at present for this target).
I can as Olivier or Eric if they have some time to have a look.
Do we have an idea of deadlines? Does it have to be fixed by 4.4?
--
Joel