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Re: Patch for gdb build on hppa hp-ux


On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:05:47AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:25:38PM -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> > Looks good.  After I added a local change to use -Wno-char-subscripts
> > when building gdb (patch to be submitted) I was able to build with your
> > patch.  I also ran the gdb testsuite and it went from 432 unexpected
> > errors down to 357 after adding your patch.  Most of the new passes are
> > in the gdb.cp section.
> 
> That's peculiar, but I'll accept it.  It must come from not calling
> pxdb or trying to parse system libraries for debug information, since
> the hpacc-abi.c code apparently has not been enabled in years; I went
> trying to figure out how it was turned on today and lo and behold, it
> never is.
> 
> I checked in the patch.  Steve, Eli, does this NEWS addition look
> reasonable?  I believe it's accurate for what I've removed, but I am
> not a user of HP-UX or aCC, so I'm guessing a little bit.

Sorry, meant to CC Eli on that last message obviously!

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

2007-04-10  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>

	* NEWS: Mention removal of HP aCC support.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.220
diff -u -p -r1.220 NEWS
--- NEWS	31 Mar 2007 10:42:22 -0000	1.220
+++ NEWS	10 Apr 2007 12:04:27 -0000
@@ -127,6 +127,13 @@ DWARF 1 support
 	A debug information format.  The predecessor to DWARF 2 and 
 	DWARF 3, which are still supported.
 
+Support for the HP aCC compiler on HP-UX/PA-RISC
+
+	SOM-encapsulated symbolic debugging information, automatic
+	invocation of pxdb, and the aCC custom C++ ABI.  This does not
+	affect HP-UX for Itanic or GCC for HP-UX/PA-RISC.  Code compiled
+	with aCC can still be debugged on an assembly level.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 6.6
 
 * New targets


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