Trouble with gdb 6.8 on Irix

[Joel Brobecker]

[moved to the GCC list]

> > 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