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Re: Trouble with gdb 6.8 on Irix
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore 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 18:47:48 +0000 (UTC)
- 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>
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, 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 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?
I would hope to remove fixproto and all deprecated targets on trunk around
the time 4.4.0 is released. If the deprecation patch is approved, the
deprecated targets will require --enable-obsolete to build them, on trunk
and 4.4 branch once created, until removed.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com