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Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:55:10 +0400
- Subject: Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]
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> Do you mean IRIX host or both IRIX host and target?
I mean both.
> Implementing IPv6 in gdbserver will make IRIX incompatible even as a target.
>
> I am asking as I have seen for example yours:
>
> commit 1324a0d9b562a38f4ce23c8835e1dacbbe3b51b9
> Author: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
> Date: Tue Nov 23 01:06:08 2010 +0000
> support for mips-irix on-stack trampolines
> [...]
Back then, I had access to a machine, and some interest in maintaining
this port. It's been a somewhat fun port, especially in the early days
of DWARF, and also playing with mips, but unfortunately, I don't have
access to an IRIX machine anymore, and even if I did, I'm afraid I might
not have much time to play with it except maybe for really small tasks.
The same goes for other platforms, such as HP/UX. No more hardware,
and very little time. And since I was one of the very few and
occasional maintainers of those ports, I concluded that the ports
were probably, de facto, orphaned.
--
Joel