Re: Proposal to obsolete i[3456]86-*-dgux*

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
 > This is a proposal to remove support for DG/UX in gdb.  The DG/UX
 > support code would be marked 'obsolete' in the next release of gdb and
 > removed entirely two releases from now.
 > 
 > If you use or support gdb on DG/UX, please respond to this message.
 > The presence of active users will terminate the obsolescence procedure.
 > I am particularly interested in your DG/UX version, your compiler
 > vendor and compiler version, and your gdb version.
 > 
 > gdb supports DG/UX as a native configuration with configuration
 > triples that match 'i[3456]86-*-dgux*'.  gdb does not support DG/UX
 > as a cross target.
 > 
 > I want to obsolete DG/UX because it's one of the last platforms that use
 > DWARF-1.  DWARF-1 is nearing the end of its useful life; among other
 > things, it will never support C++.
 > 
 > DG/UX is a product of Data General.  Data General was acquired by EMC
 > in 1999-09 and is now a division of EMC.  The last release of DG/UX
 > was DG/UX 4.20MU07, released 2001-04.
 > 
 > DG/UX uses gcc as its bundled C compiler.  They have their own linker
 > and their own debuggers ('mxdb' and 'dbx').  I came across an old
 > mailing list message, circa 1999, which said that DG/UX is stuck on
 > DWARF-1 because their linker does not support DWARF-2.  This information
 > is rumor quality but it is plausible.

Hmm, I was looking for something else and I stumbled across these:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/1998/msg00104.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q2/msg00133.html

Don't know if they can help in tracking people.

elena


 > 
 > gcc obsoleted i[3456]86-dg-dgux in gcc 3.1 and has deleted the code
 > in gcc-3_3-branch.
 > 
 > Ordinarily I would think that DG/UX would still have too many users in
 > the field, since the last release was only 22 months ago.  But nobody
 > stepped forward to say they were using gcc on DG/UX, so gcc successfully
 > obsoleted it.
 > 
 > Again, if you use or support gdb on DG/UX, please let us know about it.
 > 
 > Michael Elizabeth Chastain
 > <mec@shout.net>
 > "love without fear"