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Re: Trouble with gdb 6.8 on Irix
- From: Olivier Hainque <hainque at adacore dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Eric Botcazou <botcazou at adacore dot com>, hainque at adacore dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:16:28 +0200
- 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> <20080707172627.GJ704@adacore.com>
Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > 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 ask Olivier or Eric if they have some time to have a look.
I can have a preliminary look, though I'm not familiar with the
details of what fixproto is doing exactly on this target.
We still care about this target today, I still have on my list to
followup on patch adjustment suggestions issued not so long ago,
and I'd be happy to post the testresults we had.
Olivier